Political Spirituality in an Age of Eco-Apocalypse Communication and Struggle Across Species, Cultures, and Religions /

This book 'hunts and gathers' across different historical epochs and situations, juxtaposing biblical materials and hip-hop, Christian colonialism and vodou, personal experience and racial politics, poetics and high theory, in order to challenge the current crisis of sustainability from th...

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Main Author: Perkinson, James W. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137489814
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. From Sycamore Trees to Human Destiny: Reading the Wild at the Crossroads of Globalization and Apocalypse
  • 2. Cain's Offering and Abel's Cry: Reading Sabbath-Jubilee at the Crossroads of Farming and Foraging
  • 3. Wild Weeds and Imperial Trees: Reading a Messianic Parable at the Crossroads of Settlement and the Wild
  • 4. Sinai Bush and Jordanian Dove Meet Haitian Snake and Amazonian Vine: Reading Christology at the Crossroads of Empire and Ecology
  • 5. Christian Supremacy and Indigenous Savvy: Reading Race at the Crossroads of Europe and the Americas
  • 6. Underneath Guadalupe; Inside Ezili: Reading Possession at the Crossroads of Performance and Terror
  • 7. Praying with the Corn/Playing on the Horn: Reading Jazz at the Crossroads of the Country and the City
  • 8. DJ Qbert as Cyber-Maniac Shaman: Reading Dee-Jaying at the Crossroads of Tradition and Information
  • 9. Grammar of Spirit Inside De-Industrial Ferment: Reading Hip-Hop Beats at the Crossroads of Blight and Order
  • 10. Thinking from the Diaspora Back Toward the Homeland: Reading Humanity at the Crossroads of Alliance and Extinction.