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People and Land
Decolonizing Theologies
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2019
Summary
Empires rise and expand by taking lands and resources and by enslaving the bodies and minds of people. Even in this modern era, the territories, geographies, and peoples of a number of lands continue to be divided, occupied, harvested, and marketed. The legacy of slavery and the scapegoating of people persists in many lands, and religious institutions have been co-opted to own land, to gather people, to define proper behavior, to mete out salvation, and to be silent.
The contributors to People and Land, writing from under the shadows of various empires—from and in between Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Oceania—refuse to be silent. They give voice to multiple causes: to assess and transform the usual business of theology and hermeneutics; to expose and challenge the logics and delusions of coloniality; to tally and demand restitution of stolen, commodified and capitalized lands; to account for the capitalizing (touristy) and forced movements of people; and to scripturalize the undeniable ecological crises and our responsibilities to the whole life system (watershed). This book is a protest against the claims of political and religious empires over land, people, earth, minds, and the future.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0360-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0361-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
194
Product type
Edited Book
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Praise for People and Land No access
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Foreword No access
Preface No access
1 The Land Has Colors No access Pages 1 - 12
2 Lost Paradises No access
3 When No Land on Earth Is “Promised Land” No access
4 Empty Land No access
5 Religious Diversity, Political Conflict, and the Spirituality of Liberation No access
6 A Theology of Land and Its Covenant Responsibility No access
7 Landed Churches, Landless People No access
8 Empire 2.0 No access
9 Delusions of Empire No access
10 People, Land, and Empire in Asia No access
11 Colonization of the Watersheds and the Green Politics of Hagar No access
