Faith in Nature

"This is a fascinating and provocative study that engages the reader in an alternative way of understanding the meaning and purpose of American environmental movements..This is an insightful interpretive treatment that is not only well written but of considerable depth and substance. ."—Choice

"This is an important book for the times in which we live."—American Forests

"Dunlap has succeeded in opening— or perhaps re-opening— an important debate, and his book will serve as a valuable point of reference as that debate unfolds."—Agricultural History

"Faith in Nature offers many intriguing insights into modern American environmentalism and its advocates. Its most enduring insight—and its most controversial and the point of the book—centers on its argument that environmentalism is a religion."—Jon Butler, Yale University

"Environmentalism and its various antecedents represent one of the most sustained and creative efforts over the past two centuries to translate core religious values so as to demonstrate their continuing relevance to a modern age that often seems relentlessly secular, materialist, and irreligious. Faith in Nature offers a generous and thought-provoking sketch of how this environmental religious tradition has emerged over time, and where it might be headed in the future."—William Cronon, from the Foreword