Mark I. Wallace is Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies at Swarthmore College and core faculty for the U.S. State Department's Institutes on Religious Pluralism at Temple University. His books include Green Christianity: Five Ways to a Sustainable Future and Finding God in the Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature.

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• Preface ixIntroduction: Crossing the Species Divide 1The Animal God • Animism • Feral Religion • God of Beak and Feathers1. Song of the Wood Thrush 20The Singing Monk of the Crum Woods • Nature Religion • The Pigeon God • Sacred Animals • Christian Animism • Divine Subscendence • Avian Spirit Possession • Return to the Crum Woods2. The Delaware River Basin 50Toxic Tour • Heidegger's Root Metaphors • Calling Spirit from the Deep • Sacrament of Dirt and Spit • Girard's Fear of Monstrous Couplings • Green Mimesis • The Pileated Woodpecker3. Worshipping the Green God 81Crum Creek Visitation • Christian History • Jesus and Sacred Land •Augustine and Natalist Wonder • Hildegard's Viriditas Pneumatology • Rewilding Christian Worship4. "Come Suck Sequoia and Be Saved" 113John Muir's Christianimism • Indian Removal in Yosemite •The Great Code • The Water Ouzel • The Two Books • Sequoia Religion • "Christianity and Mountainanity AreStreams from the Same Fountain"5. On the Wings of a Dove 141Sagebrush Requiem • Is Earth a Living Being? • Suffering Earth •Refreshment and Fragrance in the Hills • A Tramp for God • The Death of God • God on the WingAcknowledgments 173Notes 177Index 205

Mark I. Wallace is Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies at Swarthmore College and core faculty for the U.S. State Department's Institutes on Religious Pluralism at Temple University. His books include Green Christianity: Five Ways to a Sustainable Future and Finding God in the Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature.

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• Preface ixIntroduction: Crossing the Species Divide 1The Animal God • Animism • Feral Religion • God of Beak and Feathers1. Song of the Wood Thrush 20The Singing Monk of the Crum Woods • Nature Religion • The Pigeon God • Sacred Animals • Christian Animism • Divine Subscendence • Avian Spirit Possession • Return to the Crum Woods2. The Delaware River Basin 50Toxic Tour • Heidegger's Root Metaphors • Calling Spirit from the Deep • Sacrament of Dirt and Spit • Girard's Fear of Monstrous Couplings • Green Mimesis • The Pileated Woodpecker3. Worshipping the Green God 81Crum Creek Visitation • Christian History • Jesus and Sacred Land •Augustine and Natalist Wonder • Hildegard's Viriditas Pneumatology • Rewilding Christian Worship4. "Come Suck Sequoia and Be Saved" 113John Muir's Christianimism • Indian Removal in Yosemite •The Great Code • The Water Ouzel • The Two Books • Sequoia Religion • "Christianity and Mountainanity AreStreams from the Same Fountain"5. On the Wings of a Dove 141Sagebrush Requiem • Is Earth a Living Being? • Suffering Earth •Refreshment and Fragrance in the Hills • A Tramp for God • The Death of God • God on the WingAcknowledgments 173Notes 177Index 205