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The Nature of Church Camp
An Environmental History of Outdoor Ministry, 1945–1980
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eBook - PDF
The Nature of Church Camp
An Environmental History of Outdoor Ministry, 1945–1980
About this book
The Nature of Church Camp: An Environmental History of Outdoor Ministry, 1945–1980 by Christopher W. Anderson explores the mid-twentieth-century history of religious camps and retreat centers to provide new insights into the history of environmentalism in the United States. Ecumenical Protestantism and the ecology movement both changed the calculus of American morality after World War II. Through archival material, case study visits, and oral histories, Anderson finds that these institutions often reacted to ecological critiques with temperate but gradual reforms. However, camps and outdoor ministries, by virtue of their natural settings and sizable acreage, soon provided a new way to explore the history of spirituality and ecology, moving away from the conference campus and using nostalgia for the frontier instead to make arguments about the meaning of the American nation and the value of democracy. This new way of thinking was reflected throughout the camps and enthusiastically endorsed decentralized small-group camping. By examining the conduct of church camps and conferences before, during, and after the ecological era, Anderson shows how environmental stewardship became the dominant paradigm for Protestant environmentalism, why that is a flawed and fractious model, and why it has stalled.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Nature as Campus: Conference Centers as Institutions
- Chapter 2: Confronting Conservationism and Communism at Camp
- Chapter 3: Nature as Frontier: Camping for Democracy
- Chapter 4: Confronting American Society at Camp
- Chapter 5: Confronting Ecology and Environmentalism at Camp
- Chapter 6: Nature as Wilderness: Retreat Centers and the Individual
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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