Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the spiritual understanding of nature / Pall Skulason -- Part 1. Restoring place and meaning. Restoration in space and place / William R. Jordan III -- Shame, ritual and beauty : technologies of encountering the other : past, present and future / Todd LeVasseur -- Recreating [in] Eden : ethical issues in restoration in wilderness / Daniel T. Spencer -- Re-creation : phenomenology and guerrilla gardening / Melanie Walton -- Eschatology of environmental bliss in Romans 8:18-22 and the imperative of present environmental sustainability from a Nigerian perspective / Sampson M. Nwaomah -- Resurrecting spirit : Dresden's Frauenkirche and the Bamiyan Buddhas / James Janowski -- Chanting the birds home : restoring the spirit, restoring the land / A. James Wohlpart -- Part 2. Recreating place, reconnecting with others. Reading ourselves through the land : landscape hermeneutics and ethics of place / Martin Drenthen -- Who am I, who are these people, and what is this place? : a hermeneutic account of the self, others, and environments / David Utsler -- Concern for creation : a religious response to ecological conservation / David C. McDuffie -- Recreate, relate, decenter : environmental ethics and domestic animals / Anna L. Peterson -- Replacing animal rights and liberation theories / Jonathan Parker -- Re-placing the doctrine of the Trinity : horizons, violence, and postmodern Christian thought / Sarah Morice-Brubaker -- In the beginning and in the end / H. Peter Steeves. 0