Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface 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
