When God Was a Bird : Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World.
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- 9780823281336
- BT103 .W355 2019
Cover -- WHEN GOD WAS A BIRD -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Crossing the Species Divide -- The Animal God -- Animism -- Feral Religion -- God of Beak and Feathers -- 1. Song of the Wood Thrush -- The Singing Monk of the Crum Woods -- Nature Religion -- The Pigeon God -- Sacred Animals -- Christian Animism -- Divine Subscendence -- Avian Spirit Possession -- Return to the Crum Woods -- 2. The Delaware River Basin -- Toxic 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 Woodpecker -- 3. Worshipping the Green God -- Crum Creek Visitation -- Christian History -- Jesus and Sacred Land -- Augustine and Natalist Wonder -- Hildegard's Viriditas Pneumatology -- Rewilding Christian Worship -- 4. "Come Suck Sequoia and Be Saved" -- John Muir's Christianimism -- Indian Removal in Yosemite -- The Great Code -- The Water Ouzel -- The Two Books -- "Christianity and Mountainanity Are Streams from the Same Fountain" -- 5. On the Wings of a Dove -- Sagebrush 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 Wing -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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