Walking in the land of many gods remembering sacred reason in contemporary environmental literature - Wohlpart, A. James (The University of Georgia Press, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction: A mind of sky and thunder and sun -- Remembering deep space and deep time: Heidegger, the pleistocene, and Native American philosophy -- Restor(y)ing the self: ecological restoration in Janisse Ray's Ecology of a cracker childhood -- The long migration home: listening to birds in Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place -- Healing the severed trust: Linda Hogan's dwellings: a spiritual history of the living world as native ceremony -- Walking in the land of many gods: remembering the mysterious plenitude of Earth
How are we placed on Earth? What is our relationship to the world around us, and how Walking in the Land of Many Gods envisions a new way of thinking about the world, one grounded in a moral imagination reconnected to Earth. Insightful readings of three contemporary classics of nature writing-Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, and Linda Hogan's Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World -are at the heart of Wohlpart's endeavor. Powerful and affecting works like these reveal a pathway to a deeper rem