At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in AmericaUniversity of California Press, 24.10.2005 - 380 Seiten 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. Drawing from vivid firsthand accounts as well as from rich historical material, this gracefully written study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present examines the lives and beliefs of those who have ascribed to the homesteading philosophy, placing their experiences within the broader context of the changing meanings of nature and religion in modern American culture. Rebecca Kneale Gould investigates the lives of famous figures such as Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, Ralph Borsodi, Wendell Berry, and Helen and Scott Nearing, and she presents penetrating interviews with many contemporary homesteaders. She also considers homesteading as a form of dissent from consumer culture, as a departure from traditional religious life, and as a practice of environmental ethics. |
Inhalt
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| 11 | |
2 Getting Not Too Close to Nature | 38 |
3 Homemade Ritual | 63 |
John Burroughs Goes Back to the Land | 108 |
5 Scott Nearing and the Social Gospel of Agriculture | 139 |
The Dynamics of Engagement and Retreat | 171 |
Gender Class Nature and Religion | 201 |
Of Hoes and Huckleberries A Note on Method | 237 |
Notes | 243 |
Selected Bibliography | 309 |
Index | 327 |
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At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America Rebecca Kneale Gould Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America Rebecca Kneale Gould Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America Rebecca Kneale Gould Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ambivalence American culture argues back to nature back-to-the-land Barrus Bellah Bolton Hall building Burroughs's century chapter choice Christian church close to nature commitment contemporary context Coperthwaite daily early earth eating economic environmental essay ethic expression farmer Forest Farm garden gender Gene Logsdon Harlan Hubbard Helen and Scott Helen Nearing Henry homesteading Hubbard human Ibid intellectual interpreted Interview involved John Burroughs John Saltmarsh kind labor land means moral natural world nature's Nearing's one’s particular practice of homesteading radical Ralph Borsodi readers reform relationship religious Renehan reprint resistance ritual Riverby role sacred Sal’s Saltmarsh Sauna Scott Nearing self-sufficiency sense simple living Slabsides Social Gospel Social Religion spiritual steaders steading story symbolic Tatelbaum texts Thoreau tion Total Loss Farm traditional ture University Press vegetarianism Vermont vision voluntary simplicity Walden Wendell Berry wood writing Wuthnow York yurt