Environmentalists have often blamed Protestantism for justifying the human exploitation of nature, but the author of this cultural history argues that, in Ameri

Author's best-known and most controversial study relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan belief that hard work and good deeds were outward signs

Inherit the Holy Mountain puts religion at the center of the history of American environmentalism rather than at its margins, demonstrating how religion provide

We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatura

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to pro