Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments A Homesteading Time Line Introduction 1. Conversion 2. Getting (Not Too) Close to Nature 3. Homemade Ritual Interlude: Interpreting Ambivalence: Homesteading as Spiritual and Cultural Work 4. The Reenchantment of the Farm: John Burroughs Goes Back to the Land 5. Scott Nearing and the Social Gospel of Agriculture 6. Ambivalent Legacies I: The Dynamics of Engagement and Retreat 7. Ambivalent Legacies II: Gender, Class, Nature, and Religion Appendix: Of Hoes and Huckleberries: A Note on Method Notes Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

Rebecca Kneale Gould is Associate Professor of Religion and Affiliate in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College.