Walking in the Land of Many Gods: Remembering Sacred Reason in Contemporary Environmental Literature

CONTENTS

Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi A Note on Documentation xiii Chapter One Introduction A Mind of Sky and Thunder and Sun 1 Chapter Two Remembering Deep Space and Deep Time Heidegger, the Pleistocene, and Native American Philosophy 12 Chapter Three Restor(y)ing the Self Ecological Restoration in Janisse Ray’s Ecology of a Cracker Childhood 47 Chapter Four The Long Migration Home Listening to Birds in Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place 86 viii contents Chapter Five Healing the Severed Trust Linda Hogan’s Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World as Native Ceremony 127 Chapter Six Walking in the Land of Many Gods Remembering the Mysterious Plenitude of Earth 172 notes 181 Bibliography 195 index 201 ...