At the Confluence of Paradox
Implicit Religion and the Wild
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.7.3.207.66315Keywords:
the wild, wildernessAbstract
Using storied memoir as her source, the author describes the paradoxical nature of contemporary culture’s relationship to wilderness and the wild. She defines three separate entities: wilderness, wildlands, and the wild, and discusses their implications in the way in which we view self, other, and the natural world.
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