Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars

The Angel of the Jordan Meets the Trickster of Detroit

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James W. Perkinson

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This book offers resources for re-imagining the biblical vision of water for a time quickly emerging as “the century of water wars.” It takes its urgency from the author’s 5-year activist engagement with a grass-roots-led social movement, pushing back on Detroit water shutoffs as global climate crises intensify. Concerned with both white supremacist “biopolitics” and continuing settler colonial reliance on the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, and beholden to an interreligious methodology of “crossing over and coming back,” the text creatively re-reads the biblical tradition under tutelage to the mythologies and practices of various indigenous cultures (Algonquian/Huron, Haitian/Vodouisant, and Celtic/Norman) whose embrace of water is animate and spiritual as well as political and communal. Not enough, today, merely to engage the political battle over water rights, however; indigenous wisdom and biblical prophecy alike insist that recovery of water spirituality is central to a sustainable future.

Author Biography:

James W. Perkinson is a long-time activist/educator/poet from inner city Detroit, teaching as Professor of Social Ethics at the Ecumenical Theological Seminary and lecturing in Intercultural Communication Studies at the University of Oakland (Michigan).

Release date Australia

April 17th, 2019

Author

James W. Perkinson

Pages

358

Edition

1st ed. 2019

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

3 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 358 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color.

Dimensions

148x210x21

ISBN-13

9783030150006

Product ID

30891399

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