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Worship and Wilderness : Culture, Religion, and Law in Public Lands Management.

How the intertwining influences of culture, religion, and law affect the management of public lands -- Questions about land use, conservation, and preservation--already so perplexing and contentious--take on a new complexity, and greater urgency, when the land in question is understood as sacred. Th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Wisconsin Press 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1. Culture and Spirituality
  • 1. Full Circle: Return to the Source
  • 2. Contemplation and Connection: Indigenous Spirituality and the Environment
  • 3. Nature as Haven, Nature as Hades: The Role of Wilderness in Immigrant Religions
  • Part 2. Law
  • 4. Culture and Justice: Nature and the Rule of Law in the 8220;New World8221;
  • 5. Of Walls and Windows: Church8211;State Separation and Religious Accommodation
  • Part 3. Management of Public Lands and Resources
  • 6. Rising to Heaven or Risen from Hell? Culture, Conflict, and Consensus at Devils Tower National Monument
  • 7. Other Spaces, Other Cases: Worship and Multiple-Use Management of Public Lands
  • 8. Birthing the Woolly Cow: The Contested Legal Reconstruction of the American Bison
  • 9. Conservation and Cultural Renewal: Hunting, Gathering, and Cleansing the Waters
  • 10. Pacific Rim Variations: Between East and West
  • Part 4. Charting a Common Course
  • 11. Coming Home: Euro-Americans and Contemplative Rediscovery of the 8220;New World8221;
  • 12. The National Commons as Sacred Space: Making Peace in the Field and Defending It in Court
  • Notes
  • Index.