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Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism

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Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism - Balthrop-Lewis, Alda
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Thoreau's Religion presents a ground-breaking interpretation of Henry David Thoreau's most famous book, Walden. Rather than treating Walden Woods as a lonely wilderness, Balthrop-Lewis demonstrates that Thoreau's ascetic life was a form of religious practice dedicated to cultivating a just, multispecies community. The book makes an important contribution to scholarship in religious studies, political theory, English, environmental studies, and critical theory by offering the first sustained reading of Thoreau's religiously ...

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Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism 2021, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108835107

Hardcover