Nature, Natural History, and the Dilemma of Religious Liberalism in Thoreau’s The Maine Woods

Focusing on Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Indian’ studies, in particular his widely popular The Maine Woods (1864), and writing from within the discipline of religious studies and speci?cally American religious history, I locate Thoreau squarely in nineteenth-century religious liberalism. This allows for a...

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Main Author: Dillard, Daniel C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2012
In: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2012, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-55
Further subjects:B Nature
B Thoreau
B Religion
B Science
B Native Americans
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