Natural Communions offers interdisciplinary essays that view the sacred from the perspective of an Earth-centered spirituality, redefining humanity's response to ecological challenges and engendering a more expansive cosmology complete with a naturalized conception of Divine Reality.

Introduction 1. The Five Ways of the Cosmos: Stoicism and Eco-Spirituality in the Perennial Tradition 2. A Functional Cosmology for the Crisis of the Anthropocene 3. Earth Medicine Man Makes This Place: A Prolegomenon to an Akimel O'odham Environmental Ethics 4. Ecological Conversions in American Religious and Literary Culture 5. Green Calvinism: Reformed Protestant Origins of Western Environmentalism 6. The Symbolic Garden and the Spiritual Understanding of Nature in Byzantium 7. Eco-Spirituality in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina 8. A Sustainable City Upon a Hill? A Berryite Perspective on US Cultural Examples and American Innocence 9. Reinventing Humanity with an Eco-Spirituality Informed by a Cosmology of Cosmogenesis 10. Big Miracle and Religious Naturalism: Rescuing Myriad Nature from Popular Fantasies of Nature Rescue 11. Faith, Nature, and Politics: Developing a Non-Reductive Naturalism 12. The Paradox of God in Nature