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Park, Kyung Sook. “Lack of Ecological Awareness in the Western Catholic Civilization and Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop.” Studies in English Literature & Language 43.2 (2017): 97-116. This paper is to study Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop using an ecological approach. Also it is done by analyzing lack of ecological awareness in the western catholic civilization and its accompanied serious problems and exploring a new concept of civilization which Cather tries to represent through her novel. Under the phrase ‘manifest Destiny’ the natives in Mexico should assimilate into the American culture and catholic religion, and Father Latour, at first, thought that American Indians should adjust their way of living to American culture. His missionary work is closely related to the American expansionism. By meeting with native Americans including Jacinto and Eusabio, Latour finally showed continuous ecological behaviour practice like making a garden and building a cathedral, and it means that he understood and acknowledged life reverence and ecological awareness which the western catholic civilization lacks. In addition, it provides a starting point to recover the civilization in a crisis. (Chonnam National University)