This book discusses the environmental theologies in the bible, in western and Australian Aboriginal cultures and in English literature.

Rod Giblett is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of many books in the environmental humanities, including People and Places of Nature and Culture (2011) and most recently, Cities and Wetlands: The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture (2016).

Part 1 Sacred Earth and Evil Beings 1. In the Beginning - was the Wetland 2. Theology of Wetlands and Marsh Monsters 3. Theology of Dragons and Monstrous Serpents 4. Theology of Watery Monsters: Leviathan and Crocodiles 5. 'The Earth is the Lord's, and its Inhabitants': The Psalmists' Environmental Theologies Part 2 Theologies of Times and Places 6. Pilgrim's Progress through the Slough of Despond and the Valley of the Shadow of Death 7. God's and Nature's Nation: John 'the Baptist' Muir and US National Parks 8. Looking Back on Destruction and Being at Home in One's Time, Body and Place: Lot's Wife and the Angels of History, Geography and Corporeality 9. Rainbow Serpent Anthropology, or Rainbow Spirit Theology, or Swamp Serpent Sacrality and Marsh Monster Maternity?