Political spirituality in an age of eco-apocalypse : essays in communication and struggle across species, cultures, and religions / James W. Perkinson.
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. It is compelled by a desire to challenge the current crisis of sus...
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| 505 | 0 | |a PART I: PERSONAL INTRODUCTIONS: THE POLITICS AND ECO-LOGICS OF "SPIRITUAL" COMMUNICATION -- 1. From Sycamore Trees to Human Destiny: Reading the Wild at the Crossroads of Globalization and Apocalypse -- PART II: THE QUESTION IN THE BIBLICAL TRADITION: COMMUNICATION AND RESISTANCE -- 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 -- PART III: THE QUESTION AND THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION: COMMUNICATION AND EMPIRE -- 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 -- PART IV: THE QUESTION IN MODERNITY: COMMUNICATION AMONG THE SUBORDINATED -- 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 -- PART V: THE QUESTION IN POST-MODERNITY: COMMUNICATION AND GLOBALIZATION -- 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 -- PART VI: PERSONAL CONCLUSION: COMMUNICATION AND SPIRITUALITY IN POST-COLONIAL PARTNERSHIP -- 10. Thinking from the Diaspora Back Toward the Homeland: Reading Humanity at the Crossroads of Alliance and Extinction. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. It is compelled by a desire to challenge the current crisis of sustainability from the point of view of indigenous communities and deep ancestry. Author James W. Perkinson ably synthesizes material from a diverse range of fields, including anarcho-primitivism, biblical studies, and history of religions in order to argue for a 'turn to indigeneity.' The book's motive force is a deep concern for humanity's future in the face of eco-disasters like climate change and population overshoot as well as the compounding problems brought on by political economy calamities. Given the growing trend toward a turn away from institutionalized religious commitment and toward a more generalized and post-modern mix of practices and interests typically styled as 'spiritual, ' the work proposes 'political spirituality' as a theme for investigation. Throughout the book, Perkinson raises the question: What does it really meant to be a human being? This query is posed not merely as a philosophical inquiry or existential musing, but as a personal and political conundrum arising from the overwhelming crises now engulfing our global reality. The book constitutes a poetic 'walk about' across quite different historical epochs and disparate contexts. Creatively foraging for indigenous memories and insurgent energies to help us live and cope in our modern state of unsustainability, the work aims to re-animate love of the wild and 'interspecies listening' for the sake of survival. The text articulates a deep suspicion toward our growing fascination with a kind of 'techno-messianism, ' while nonetheless exploring some of the artistic innovations and meanings emerging from industrialization and digitalization. | ||
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