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Preface ix
Introduction: Crossing the Species Divide 1
The Animal God • Animism • Feral Religion • God of Beak and Feathers
1. Song of the Wood Thrush 20
The Singing Monk of the Crum Woods • Nature Religion •
The Pigeon God • Sacred Animals • Christian Animism •
Divine Subscendence • Avian Spirit Possession •
Return to the Crum Woods
2. The Delaware River Basin 50
Toxic Tour • Heidegger’s Root Metaphors •
Calling Spirit from the Deep • Sacrament of Dirt and Spit •
Girard’s Fear of Monstrous Couplings • Green Mimesis •
The Pileated Woodpecker
3. Worshipping the Green God 81
Crum Creek Visitation • Christian History • Jesus and Sacred Land •
Augustine and Natalist Wonder • Hildegard’s Viriditas Pneumatology •
Rewilding Christian Worship
4. “Come Suck Sequoia and Be Saved” 113
John Muir’s Christianimism • Indian Removal in Yosemite •
The Great Code • The Water Ouzel • The Two Books •
Sequoia Religion • “Christianity and Mountainanity Are
Streams from the Same Fountain”
5. On the Wings of a Dove 141
Sagebrush Requiem • Is Earth a Living Being? • Suffering Earth •
Refreshment and Fragrance in the Hills • A Tramp for God •
The Death of God • God on the Wing
Acknowledgments 173
Notes 177
Index 205

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 20 November 2018
      ISBN-13 9780823281329
      978-0823281329
      ISBN-10 0823281329
      Also in:
      Philosophy of mind

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Preface ix
      Introduction: Crossing the Species Divide 1
      The Animal God • Animism • Feral Religion • God of Beak and Feathers
      1. Song of the Wood Thrush 20
      The Singing Monk of the Crum Woods • Nature Religion •
      The Pigeon God • Sacred Animals • Christian Animism •
      Divine Subscendence • Avian Spirit Possession •
      Return to the Crum Woods
      2. The Delaware River Basin 50
      Toxic Tour • Heidegger’s Root Metaphors •
      Calling Spirit from the Deep • Sacrament of Dirt and Spit •
      Girard’s Fear of Monstrous Couplings • Green Mimesis •
      The Pileated Woodpecker
      3. Worshipping the Green God 81
      Crum Creek Visitation • Christian History • Jesus and Sacred Land •
      Augustine and Natalist Wonder • Hildegard’s Viriditas Pneumatology •
      Rewilding Christian Worship
      4. “Come Suck Sequoia and Be Saved” 113
      John Muir’s Christianimism • Indian Removal in Yosemite •
      The Great Code • The Water Ouzel • The Two Books •
      Sequoia Religion • “Christianity and Mountainanity Are
      Streams from the Same Fountain”
      5. On the Wings of a Dove 141
      Sagebrush Requiem • Is Earth a Living Being? • Suffering Earth •
      Refreshment and Fragrance in the Hills • A Tramp for God •
      The Death of God • God on the Wing
      Acknowledgments 173
      Notes 177
      Index 205

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