Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 22, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Half Title; Series Announcement Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Crossing the Species Divide; The Animal God; Animism; Feral Religion; God of Beak and Feathers; 1. Song of the Wood Thrush; The Singing Monk of the Crum Woods; Nature Religion; The Pigeon God; Sacred Animals; Christian Animism; Divine Subscendence; Avian Spirit Possession; Return to the Crum Woods; 2. The Delaware River Basin; Toxic Tour; Heidegger's Root Metaphors; Calling Spirit from the Deep; Sacrament of Dirt and Spit; Girard's Fear of Monstrous Couplings; Green Mimesis

The Pileated Woodpecker3. Worshipping the Green God; Crum Creek Visitation; Christian History; Jesus and Sacred Land; Augustine and Natalist Wonder; Hildegard's Viriditas Pneumatology; Rewilding Christian Worship; 4. "Come Suck Sequoia and Be Saved"; John Muir's Christianimism; Indian Removal in Yosemite; The Great Code; The Water Ouzel; The Two Books; Sequoia Religion; "Christianity and Mountainanity Are Streams from the Same Fountain"; 5. On the Wings of a Dove; Sagebrush Requiem; Is Earth a Living Being?; Suffering Earth; Refreshment and Fragrance in the Hills; A Tramp for God

The Death of GodGod on the Wing; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; Series Page

At one time, God was a bird. In ancient Egypt, Thoth was the Ibis-headed divinity of magic & wisdom. Winged divine beings populated the pantheon of Greek antiquity, & Quetzalcoatl was the plumed serpent deity of the pre-Columbian Aztecs. It is said that in spite of, or better, to spite, this time-honoured wealth of divine avifauna, Christianity divorced God from the avian world in order to defend a pure form of monotheism. This work calls this new but ancient vision of the world 'Christian animism' in order to signal the continuity of biblical religion with the beliefs of indigenous & non-Western communities that Spirit enfleshes itself within everything that grows, walks, flies, & swims in & over the Earth.

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