Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars The Angel of the
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
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Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars “The privatization (and commodification) of water poses a serious threat to life on our planet, even as it poses most immediate threats to poorer communities (think Detroit and Flint MI) and especially to Native communities (think Standing Rock and DAPL or the Alberta Tar Sands). Jim Perkinson does a masterful job of laying out the issues, bringing together the Native landscape and our traditions with African American traditions and a powerful reading of his own euro-Christian texts.” —Tink Tinker (wazhazhe/Osage Nation), Iliff School of Theology, USA “Perkinson has both the academic wherewithal and the Detroit direct action street cred to plumb the eddies and deeps of history - local, Indigenous, biblical. By such ancestry he is summoning us to the animate universe in this moment. Scriptural ‘principalities’ find their names, analogies, and idiom in mythic narrative. The earth is aflood with divine voices, including that of water herself, our dearest kin whose struggle in neighborhood and planet we best join as ally.” —Bill Wylie-Kellermann, author of Where the Water Goes Around (2017) and Methodist pastor “This is a superb ecoanarchistic reading of biblical stories against the backdrop of the corporate and racist water politics within the Motor City region of today. It uncovers the origins of the Jesus movement in nomadic economies, solidarity with the poor, and resistance to imperial control. Perkinson’s new book will elucidate for readers Christianity’s true beginnings, its historic wrong turns, and provide a road map for the future that is personally liberating and politically transformative.” —Mark I. Wallace, Swarthmore College, USA “This is a timely study of a problem that will only increase in urgency in the coming years – the growing water crisis. Perkinson addresses with clarity and power the roots of the crisis in climate change and social injustice. He describes as well how a responsible engagement with the crisis requires a spiritually grounded engagement with systemic injustice and with technological structures of environmentally sustainable water use. His focus is the crisis in Detroit, yet the implications of his analysis are global in scope. A compelling call to action grounded in honesty, gratitude and respect!” —Sharon D. Welch, Meadville Lombard Theological School, USA
James W. Perkinson
Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars The Angel of the Jordan Meets the Trickster of Detroit
James W. Perkinson Ecumenical Theological Seminary Detroit, MI, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-14997-0 ISBN 978-3-030-14998-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14998-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019933880 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, w
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