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Tables of Contents for Making Nature Sacred
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
12
Landfall: The New World as New Creation
15
20
Hayle Holly Land
15
3
From William Bradford's ``Hideous and Desolate Wilderness'' to Cotton Mather's Sacred Geography
18
9
Thomas Morton's Idol Experiment: Nature Religion in New Canaan
27
8
Meditating on the Creatures in Early American Life and Letters
35
20
Visible Wonders of the Invisible World
35
5
Anne Bradstreet's Meditations on the Creatures
40
8
Ethical Views of ``Brute Creation'' in Two Quakers: William Bartram and John Woolman
48
7
Intimations of an Environmental Ethic in the Writings of Jonathan Edwards
55
16
From Edwards to Aldo Leopold
55
2
Sacred Grounds of Leopold's Land Ethic
57
3
Yes! in Thunder
60
2
The Divine Beauty of Creation
62
4
From Aesthetics to Environmental Ethics: The Nature of True Virtue Applied to Nature
66
5
``Revelation to US'': Green Shoots of Romantic Religion in Antebellum America
71
30
Surveying the Field
71
2
From Reading Nature's Book to Worshipping in God's First Temple: Bryant and Cooper
73
15
Emerson's Nature
88
2
From Commodity to Cosmos
90
4
Revelation to US: The Primacy of Experience
94
1
Reshaping Nature
95
6
Variations on Nature: From the Old Manse to the White Whale
101
26
Hawthorne's Recovery of Eden
101
5
Secret Gardens: Women's Plot, Women's Work
106
4
God's Grassy Handkerchief: Walt Whitman's World
110
6
``Heartless Voids and Immensities'': The Inscrutable Nature of Moby-Dick
116
11
``Rare and Delectable Places'': Thoreau's Imagination of Sacred Space at Walden
127
16
Spirits of Concord
127
5
Active and Contemplative Religion
132
1
Sandbank Visions of Numinous Evolution
133
10
Post-Darwinian Visions of Divine Creation
143
32
Beyond Deicidal Darwinism
143
5
Godliness Writ Large in John Muir's Sierra
148
9
Earthspirits of Other Peoples in Mary Austin and Black Elk
157
8
Rachel Carson's Reverence for Hidden Pools of Life
165
10
Imagined Worlds: The Lure of Numinous Exoticism
175
24
Swamp Spirits of African America
175
6
Discerning the Invisible Landscape in Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams
181
7
Seeking the Unseen Snow Leopard
188
7
God, Satan, and Uncle Sam in the Everglades
195
4
Reclaiming the Sacred Commons
199
26
The Gifted Land of Wendell Berry
199
8
Annie Dillard's Interrogation of Creation
207
7
Paradise Regained in Suburbia: John Cheever's Fable of Beasley's Pond
214
5
The Undomesticated Ecology of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
219
6
Learning to Love Creation: The Religious Tenor of Contemporary Ecopoetry
225
20
Religious Features of ``The Secular Pilgrimage''
225
5
Poetry of Sabbath Spaces
230
4
Love for ``All of It''
234
5
Beyond Humanism toward Reverence: The Beauty of Unknowing
239
6
Afterword
245
2
Notes
247
36
Index
283