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Book SynopsisIn A Liberation for the Earth Anupama Ranawana explores the nexus between climate, race and the liberative potential of the cross. Reflecting on the entanglement between colonialization and the destruction of the planet, she considers how this is played out and resisted within a range of faith based and secular ecological justice movements.
Trade Review"In A Liberation for the Earth: Race, Climate and Cross, Anupama Ranawana identifies the way unfair power structures lead to ecological sin. Her “rage” toward environmental injustice will spark a passion for others to engage in justice making. By making the connection between “systems of enslavement, expropriation, colonization and indigenous genocide,” she makes a cogent case for racial injustice as that which fuels a disproportionate impact for the current climate crisis."
-- CL Nash
"In reading A Liberation for the Earth, A.M. Ranawana gives us more than a theoretical methodology, she demonstrates how we can apply the encyclical Laudato Si′ alongside a liberation and decolonial theology in which all are in conversation with justice narratives. It is an enlightening and moving read that is a welcome addition to the study of racialized discourses within biblical hermeneutics."
-- Dionne Gravesande
