Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Culture and Spirituality -- 1. Full Circle: Return to the Source -- 2. Contemplation and Connection: Indigenous Spirituality and the Environment -- 3. Nature as Haven, Nature as Hades: The Role of Wilderness in Immigrant Religions -- Part 2. Law -- 4. Culture and Justice: Nature and the Rule of Law in the "New World" -- 5. Of Walls and Windows: Church-State Separation and Religious Accommodation -- Part 3. Management of Public Lands and Resources -- 6. Rising to Heaven or Risen from Hell? Culture, Conflict, and Consensus at Devils Tower National Monument -- 7. Other Spaces, Other Cases: Worship and Multiple-Use Management of Public Lands -- 8. Birthing the Woolly Cow: The Contested Legal Reconstruction of the American Bison -- 9. Conservation and Cultural Renewal: Hunting, Gathering, and Cleansing the Waters -- 10. Pacific Rim Variations: Between East and West -- Part 4. Charting a Common Course -- 11. Coming Home: Euro-Americans and Contemplative Rediscovery of the "New World" -- 12. The National Commons as Sacred Space: Making Peace in the Field and Defending It in Court -- Notes -- Index.