Research Catalog

Title

People and land : decolonizing theologies / Jione Havea.

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, Fortress Academic, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Havea, Jione, 1965-

Description

xiv, 194 pages; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Theology in the age of empire

Subject

• Land tenure > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Postcolonial theology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Collin I. Cowan -- Land has colors / Jione Havea -- Promises and losses. Lost paradises : tracing the imperial contours of modern tourism upon land and peoples / Steed Vernyl Davidson -- When no land on earth is "promised land" : empire and forced migrants / Gemma Tulud Cruz -- Empty land : righteous theology, sneaky coloniality / Santiago Slabodsky -- Religious diversity, political conflict, and the spirituality of liberation / Mitri Raheb -- Theology of land and its convenant responsibility / Sifiso Mpofu -- Dsipossessions and responsibilities. Landed churches, landless people / Kuzipa Nalwamba -- Empire 2.0 : land mattersin Jamaica and the Caribbean / Garnett Roper -- Delusions of empire : on people and land in Oceania / Nāsili Vaka'uta -- People, land, and empire in Asia : geopolitics, theological imaginations, and islands of peace / Jude Lal Fernando -- Colonization of the watersheds and the green politics of Hagar / George Zachariah -- Lost land : visualizing deforestation and eschatology in the apocalypse of John and the column of Trajan in Rome / Barbara Rossing.

Call Number

JFE 20-2775

ISBN

• 9781978703605
• 1978703600
• 9781978703612 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019039987

OCLC

1140428596

Title

People and land : decolonizing theologies / Jione Havea.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, Fortress Academic, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Theology in the age of empire

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Havea, Jione, 1965- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: People and land Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019. 9781978703612 (DLC) 2019039988

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2775