{"product_id":"god-is-change-9781439921128","title":"God is Change","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout her work, Octavia E. Butler explored, critiqued, and created religious ideology. Her prescient thoughts on the synergy between politics and religion in America are evident in her 1993 dystopian novel, Parable of the Sower, and its 1998 sequel, Parable of the Talents. They explored, respectively, what happens during a divisive cultural war that unjustly impacts the disenfranchised, and the rise of a fascistic president, allied with white fundamentalist Christianity, who chants the slogan, Make America Great Again.But religion, for Butler, need not be a restricting force. The editors of and contributors to God Is Change heighten our appreciation for the range and depth of Butler's thinking about spirituality and religion, as well as how Butler's workespecially the Parable and Xenogenesis seriesoffers resources for healing and community building. Essays consider the role of spirituality in Butler's canon and the themes of confronting trauma as well as experiencing transformatio","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408323060055,"sku":"9781439921128","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439921128.jpg?v=1730502439","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/god-is-change-9781439921128","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}