ISBN:
9780520937864
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0520937864
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1423717317
,
9781423717317
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (1 v.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Annus, Irén E. Review: At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America, by Rebecca Kneale Gould 2009
Parallel Title:
Print version At home in nature
DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
Country life Religious aspects
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Nature Religious aspects
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Spirituality United States
;
Country life United States
;
Nature and civilization United States
;
Country life Religious aspects
;
Nature Religious aspects
;
Spirituality
;
Country life
;
Nature and civilization
;
Country life
;
Nature and civilization
;
Spirituality
;
Nature Religious aspects
;
Country life Religious aspects
;
United States Religious life and customs
;
Country life
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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RELIGION ; Comparative Religion
;
Country life ; Religious aspects
;
Nature and civilization
;
Nature ; Religious aspects
;
Spirituality
;
United States Religious life and customs
;
United States Religious life and customs
;
United States Religious life and customs
;
United States
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Homesteading Time Line; Introduction; 1. Conversion; 2. Getting (Not Too) Close to Nature; 3. Homemade Ritual; Interlude: Interpreting Ambivalence: Homesteading as Spiritual and Cultural Work; 4. The Reenchantment of the Farm: John Burroughs Goes Back to the Land; 5. Scott Nearing and the Social Gospel of Agriculture; 6. Ambivalent Legacies I: The Dynamics of Engagement and Retreat; 7. Ambivalent Legacies II: Gender, Class, Nature, and Religion; Appendix: Of Hoes and Huckleberries: A Note on Method; Notes; Selected Bibliography.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
