"The essays in this volume came together as part of the 'Earth' stream in the 2019 Discernment and Radical Engagement (DARE) Global Forum held in Yilan County near Taipei, Taiwan, and hosted by the Council for World Missions"--preface. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Transdiasporic indigeneity and decolonizing faith : recovering earth spirituality in a settler colonial context / S. Lily Mendoza. Waters cry out : water protectors, watershed justice, and the voice of the waters / Barbara R. Rossing -- Reclaiming Mother Earth : a Khasi indigenous re-reading of Psalm 104 / Enolyne Lyngdoh -- On earth as in heaven : the earth in the Podong Leitourgia of the post-human commune / Ferdinand A. Anno -- Eleele interrupts the Eden wedding : from Mother Earth to mistress / Faafetai Aiavã -- Dreaming someone else's Gods : a cosmopolitics of constructive trespass / Kathryn Poethig -- Truth, reconciliation, and climate justice : applications of truth and reconciliation processes to climate debt and the climate crisis / E. Sheryl Johnson -- Where earth and water meet : developent, displacement, and African spirituality in Zimbabwe / Sophia Chirongoma -- Eschatology and creation care in the context of the Israeli colonization of Palestine / Yousef Kamal AlKhouri -- Decolonizing the privileged : resistance and re-building the new economy / Cynthia Moe-Lobeda -- Whose Oikos is it anyway?: towards a Poromboke eco-theology of "commoning" / George Zachariah -- Land lovers : from agropornography to agroecology / Nancy Cardoso -- "Wise as serpents, innocent as doves" : recovering an indigenous politics of spirit by way of Quetzalcóatl, Guadalupe / James W. Perkinson -- Transdiasporic indigeneity and decolonizing faith : recovering earth spirituality in a settler colonial context / S. Lily Mendoza.
Summary:
"Decolonizing ecotheology : indigenous and subaltern challenges is a pioneering attempt to contest the politics of conquest, commodification, and homogenization in mainstream ecotheology, informed by the voices of Indigenous and subaltern communities from around the world. The book marshals a robust polyphony of reportage, wonder, analysis, and acumen seeking to open the door to a different prospect for a planet under grave duress and a different self-assessment for our own species in the mix. At the heart of that prospect is an embrace of soils and waters as commons and a privileging of subaltern experience and marginalized witness as the bellwethers of greatest import. Of course, decolonization finds its ultimate test in the actual return of land and waters to precontact Indigenous who yet have feet on the ground or paddles in the waves, and who conjure dignity and vision in the manifold of their relations, in spite of ceaseless onslaught and dismissal. Their courage is the haunt these pages hallow like an Abel never entirely erased from the history. May the moaning stop and the re-creation begin!" -- Page 4 of cover.
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