03777nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-59471-7 DE-He213 20251030112620.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240709s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031594717 978-3-031-59471-7 10.1007/978-3-031-59471-7 doi BR1-1725 HRC bicssc REL070000 bisacsh QRM thema Perkinson, James W. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80244 Political Spirituality in the Face of Climate Collapse [electronic resource] : Of Monsters, Megaliths, Mules, and Muck / by James W. Perkinson. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 320 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Part I Meeting Monsters -- Chapter 1. Mirror -- Chapter 2. Metabolism -- Chapter 3. Monstrance -- Part II Monstrous Musing -- Chapter 4. Menace -- Chapter 5. Myth -- Part III Monstrous Mentoring -- Chapter 6. Matter -- Chapter 7. Mountains -- Part IV Monstrous “Meddling” -- Chapter 8. Metal -- Chapter 9. Muck (Mettle) -- Part V Mobilizing Monsters -- Chapter 10. Mites -- Chapter 11. Mules -- Chapter 12. Metropolis. 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. . Christianity. 72553 Religion and politics. 69772 Philosophy of nature. Religion and sociology. 68604 Christianity. 72553 Politics and Religion. 69773 Philosophy of Nature. Sociology of Religion. 68606 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031594700 Printed edition: 9783031594724 Printed edition: 9783031594731 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59471-7 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 61450 61450