Sarah M. Pike is Professor of Comparative Religion at California State University, Chico, and author of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community and New Age and Neopagan Religions in America.

"Pike’s For the Wild provides an essential and well-structured resource for scholars interested in the intersection between environmentalism and alternative spiritualities."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: For All the Wild Hearts1. Freedom and Insurrection around a Fire2. At the Turn of the Millennium: Youth Culture and the Roots of Contemporary Activism3. Childhood Landscapes of Wonder and Awe4. Into the Forest5. “Liberation’s Crusade Has Begun”: Hare Krishna Hardcore Youth and Animal Rights Activism6. Circles of Community, Strategies of Inclusion7. Rites of Grief and MourningConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Sarah M. Pike is Professor of Comparative Religion at California State University, Chico, and author of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community and New Age and Neopagan Religions in America.

"Pike’s For the Wild provides an essential and well-structured resource for scholars interested in the intersection between environmentalism and alternative spiritualities."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: For All the Wild Hearts1. Freedom and Insurrection around a Fire2. At the Turn of the Millennium: Youth Culture and the Roots of Contemporary Activism3. Childhood Landscapes of Wonder and Awe4. Into the Forest5. “Liberation’s Crusade Has Begun”: Hare Krishna Hardcore Youth and Animal Rights Activism6. Circles of Community, Strategies of Inclusion7. Rites of Grief and MourningConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex