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Landscapes of the sacred: geography and narrative in American spirituality
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ISBN: 0801868386 9780801868382 Year: 2002 Publisher: Baltimore, Md Johns Hopkins University Press


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Restless souls : the making of American spirituality
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ISBN: 0520273672 0520954114 9780520273672 9780520954113 1283543230 9786613855688 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism-all are part of an ongoing religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history. Tracing out the country's Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan religious impulses over the last two centuries, Restless Souls explores America's abiding romance with spirituality as religion's better half. Now in its second edition, including a new preface, Leigh Eric Schmidt's fascinating book provides a rich account of how this open-road spirituality developed in American culture in the first place as well as a sweeping survey of the liberal religious movements that touted it and ensured its continued vitality.

At home in nature
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ISBN: 1282357859 0520937864 9786612357855 1598755811 9780520937864 1423717317 9781423717317 9781598755817 9780520241404 0520241401 9780520241428 0520241428 9781282357853 6612357851 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Motivated variously by the desire to reject consumerism, to live closer to the earth, to embrace voluntary simplicity, or to discover a more spiritual path, homesteaders have made the radical decision to go "back to the land," rejecting modern culture and amenities to live self-sufficiently and in harmony with nature. Drawing from vivid firsthand accounts as well as from rich historical material, this gracefully written study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present examines the lives and beliefs of those who have ascribed to the homesteading philosophy, placing their experiences within the broader context of the changing meanings of nature and religion in modern American culture. Rebecca Kneale Gould investigates the lives of famous figures such as Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, Ralph Borsodi, Wendell Berry, and Helen and Scott Nearing, and she presents penetrating interviews with many contemporary homesteaders. She also considers homesteading as a form of dissent from consumer culture, as a departure from traditional religious life, and as a practice of environmental ethics.


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Living stones : the history and structure of catholic spiritual life in the United States
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ISBN: 0029054753 9780029054758 Year: 1989 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Macmillan

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