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- Title
New Streams of Religion: Fly Fishing as a Lived, Religion of Nature.
- Authors
Snyder, Samuel
- Abstract
Fly fishers around the world frequently use terms such as religious, spiritual, sacred, divine, ritual, meditation, and conversion to describe their personal angling experiences. Further, drawing upon religious terminology, anglers will refer to rivers as their church and to nature as sacred. Often these latter pronouncements drive a concern for the conservation of these sacred spaces as evidenced by participation in both local and national conservation organizations. Informed by theoretical perspectives offered by religious studies, particularly "lived religion" and "religion and nature," I shall trace a few of the historical, material, and everyday elements of fly fishers and their subcultures, demonstrating along the way the insights that come by understanding fly fishing as a religious practice, which can, at times, drive an ethic of environmental conservation.
- Subjects
FLY fishing; RELIGIOUS experience; SACRED space; NATURE &; religion; ENVIRONMENTALISM &; religion; RELIGION
- Publication
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2007, Vol 75, Issue 4, p896
- ISSN
0002-7189
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jaarel/lfm063