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At home in nature : modern homesteading and spiritual practice in America / Rebecca Kneale Gould.

By: Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.Description: xxx, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520241401 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520241428 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.0973 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2525 .G69 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Conversion -- Getting (not too) close to nature -- Homemade ritual -- Interlude: interpreting ambivalence: homesteading as spiritual and cultural work -- The re-enchantment of the farm: John Burroughs goes back to the land -- Scott Nearing and the social gospel of agriculture -- Ambivalent legacies I: the dynamics of engagement and retreat -- Ambivalent legacies II: gender, class, nature and religion -- Appendix: of hoes and huckleberries: a note on method.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-326) and index.

Conversion -- Getting (not too) close to nature -- Homemade ritual -- Interlude: interpreting ambivalence: homesteading as spiritual and cultural work -- The re-enchantment of the farm: John Burroughs goes back to the land -- Scott Nearing and the social gospel of agriculture -- Ambivalent legacies I: the dynamics of engagement and retreat -- Ambivalent legacies II: gender, class, nature and religion -- Appendix: of hoes and huckleberries: a note on method.

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