For the Wild

Sarah M. Pike is Professor of Comparative Religion at California State University, Chico, and author of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community and New Age and Neopagan Religions in America.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: For All the Wild Hearts1. Freedom and Insurrection around a Fire2. At the Turn of the Millennium: Youth Culture and the Roots of Contemporary Activism3. Childhood Landscapes of Wonder and Awe4. Into the Forest5. “Liberation’s Crusade Has Begun”: Hare Krishna Hardcore Youth and Animal Rights Activism6. Circles of Community, Strategies of Inclusion7. Rites of Grief and MourningConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"Pike’s For the Wild provides an essential and well-structured resource for scholars interested in the intersection between environmentalism and alternative spiritualities."