Faith in Nature
Subtitle: Environmentalism As Religious Quest (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780295983974
Subjects: Environmentalist thought & ideology; Religion & Beliefs; Nature; Environmental Studies; Nature/Ecology; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Religious; General; Environmentalism; Religious aspects
First sentence: It was the manner in which some historians reacted to William Cronon's "The Trouble with Wilderness" that first got me thinking, consciously at any rate, about the topic that turned into this book.
Description: "Faith in Nature traces the history of environmentalism - and its moral thrust - from its roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, through the Progressive Era to the present. Drawing astonishing parallels between religion and environmentalism, the book examines the passion of the movement's adherents and enemies alike, its concern with the moral conduct of daily life, and its attempt to answer fundamental questions about the underlying order of the world and of humanity's place within it."--Jacket.