Placing Nature furthers the dialogue on religion, ethics, and the environment by exploring three interrelated concepts: to recreate, to replace and to restore. This book self-consciously reflects on the intersections of environmental philosophy, environmental theology, and religion and ecology, stressing the importance of how place interprets us and how we interpret place. This work is a unique volume in its serious engagement with theology and religious studies on the issues of ecological restoration and the meaning of place.

Chapter 1 On the Spiritual Understanding of Nature, Páll Skúlason; Part 1 Restoring Place and Meaning, Mark H. Dixon; Chapter 2 Restoration in Space and Place, William R. Jordan III; Chapter 3 Shame, Ritual and Beauty, Todd LeVasseur; Chapter 4 Recreating, in] Eden, Daniel T. Spencer; Chapter 5 Re-creation, Mélanie Walton; Chapter 6 Eschatology of Environmental Bliss in Romans 8:18-22 and the Imperative of Present Environmental Sustainability from a Nigerian Perspective, Sampson M. Nwaomah; Chapter 7 Resurrecting Spirit, James Janowski; Chapter 8 Chanting the Birds Home, A. James Wohlpart; Part 2 Recreating Place, Reconnecting with Others, Forrest Clingerman; Chapter 9 Reading Ourselves through the Land, Martin Drenthen; Chapter 10 Who am I, who are these People, and what is this Place? A Hermeneutic Account of the Self, Others, and Environments, David Utsler; Chapter 11 Concern for Creation, David C. McDuffie; Chapter 12 Recreate, Relate, Decenter, Anna L. Peterson; Chapter 13 Replacing Animal Rights and Liberation Theories, Jonathan Parker; Chapter 14 Re-Placing the Doctrine of the Trinity, Sarah Morice-Brubaker; Chapter 15 In the Beginning and in the End, H. Peter Steeves;