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Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars

The Angel of the Jordan Meets the Trickster of Detroit

By: James W. Perkinson

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Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars

The Angel of the Jordan Meets the Trickster of Detroit

By: James W. Perkinson

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.

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Political Spirituality in an Age of Eco-Apocalypse

Communication and Struggle Across Species, Cultures, and Religions

By: James W. Perkinson

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Communication and Struggle Across Species, Cultures, and Religions

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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 the perspective indigenous communities and deep ancestry.

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1137489812

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The Souls of Jewish Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line

By: James M. Thomas

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The Souls of Jewish Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line

By: James M. Thomas

The Souls of Jewish Folk argues that late nineteenth-century Germany’s struggle with its “Jewish question”—what to do with Germany’s Jews—served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B. Du Bois’s considerations of America’s anti-Black racism at the turn of the twentieth century. Du Bois is wellknown for his characterization of the twentieth century’s greatest challenge, “the problem of the color line.” This proposition gained prominence in the conception of Du Bois’sThe Souls of Black Folk (1903), which engages the questions of race, racial domination, and racial exploitation. James M. Thomas contends that this conception of racism is haunted by the specter of the German Jew. In 1892 Du Bois received a fellowship for his graduate studies at the University of Berlin from the John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen. While a student in Berlin, Du Bois studied with some of that nation's most prominent social scientists. What The Souls of Jewish Folkasks readers to take seriously, then, is how our ideas, and indeed intellectual work itself, are shaped by and embedded within the nexus of people, places, and prevailing contexts of their time. With this book,Thomas examines how the major social, political, and economic events of Du Bois’s own life—including his time spent living and learning in a latenineteenth-century Germany defined in no small part by its violent anti-Semitism—constitute the soil from which his most serious ideas about race, racism, and the global color line sprang forth.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820365084

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Political Spirituality in the Face of Climate Collapse

Of Monsters, Megaliths, Mules, and Muck

By: James W. Perkinson

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Political Spirituality in the Face of Climate Collapse

Of Monsters, Megaliths, Mules, and Muck

By: James W. Perkinson

This book takes its motive force from our contemporary climate crisis. It seeks to reorient human (and especially Christian) understanding, towards a more ecologically-focused, indigenously-informed way-of-living. James W. Perkinson argues that our current eco-climatic and socio-political emergency is the culmination of a 5,000-year history of supremacist "settlement," in which city-states first emergent in Mesopotamia and Egypt not only begin coercively organizing labor into surplus production and ecosystems into inordinate and destructive yields of "goods," but in the process, also simultaneously "deform" the Spirit-World "haloing" of natural phenomenon into outsized service of imperial reach. Perkinson recognizes globalized humanity as an emerging monstrosity destroying both human culture and the world. How we re-envision and revalue, at our critical juncture, our inescapable interdependence with the more-than-human world as peer and teacher and even "elder," is the central theme that throbs below the surface of the very disparate topics commanding attention in each chapter. James W. Perkinson is a long-time activist/educator/poet living more than 35 years as a settler on Three Fires land in inner-city Detroit, teaching social ethics and spirituality at Ecumenical Theological Seminary. He holds a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Chicago and is the author of eight books.

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3031594711

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Shamanism, Racism, and Hip Hop Culture

Essays on White Supremacy and Black Subversion

By: James W. Perkinson

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Shamanism, Racism, and Hip Hop Culture

Essays on White Supremacy and Black Subversion

By: James W. Perkinson

Shamanism, Racism and Hip Hop Culture is a groundbreaking collection of essays exploring the five hundred year history of white Christian hegemony that has so profoundly shaped American society. James W. Perkinson explores the idea that American identity and history are profoundly informed by an on-going interweaving of white entitlement and black disenfranchisement that constrains other forms of cultural struggle.

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1403979189

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Political Spirituality in an Age of Eco-Apocalypse

Communication and Struggle Across Species, Cultures, and Religions

By: James W. Perkinson

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Communication and Struggle Across Species, Cultures, and Religions

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Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars

The Angel of the Jordan Meets the Trickster of Detroit

By: James W. Perkinson

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The Angel of the Jordan Meets the Trickster of Detroit

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Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars

Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars

Political Spirituality in an Age of Eco-Apocalypse

Political Spirituality in an Age of Eco-Apocalypse

The Souls of Jewish Folk

The Souls of Jewish Folk

Political Spirituality in the Face of Climate Collapse

Political Spirituality in the Face of Climate Collapse

Shamanism, Racism, and Hip Hop Culture

Shamanism, Racism, and Hip Hop Culture

Political Spirituality in an Age of Eco-Apocalypse

Political Spirituality in an Age of Eco-Apocalypse

Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars

Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars

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