{"product_id":"people-and-land-decolonizing-theologies-9781978703605","title":"People and Land: Decolonizing Theologies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmpires 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword Collin Cowan  Preface  1.\tThe land has colours Jione Havea  PROMISES AND LOSSES 2.\tLost Paradises: Tracing the Imperial Contours of Modern Tourism Upon Lands and People Steed Vernyl Davidson  3.\tWhen No Land on Earth is “Promised Land”: Empire and Forced Migrants Gemma Tulud Cruz  4.\tEmpty Land: Righteous Theology, Sneaky Coloniality Santiago Slabodsky  5.\tReligious Diversity, Political Conflict, and the Spirituality of Liberation Mitri Raheb  6.\tA Theology of Land and its Covenant Responsibility Sifiso Mpofu  DISPOSSESSIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES 7.\tLanded Churches, Landless People Kuzipa Nalwamba  8.\tEmpire 2.0: Land Matters in Jamaica and the Caribbean Garnett Roper  9.\tDelusions of Empire: On People and Land in Oceania Nāsili Vaka‘uta  10.\tPeople, Land and Empire in Asia: Geopolitics, Theological Imaginations and Islands of Peace Jude Lal Fernando  11.\tColonization of the Watersheds and the Green Politics of Hagar George Zachariah  12.\tLost Land: Visualizing Deforestation and Eschatology in the Apocalypse of John and the Column of Trajan in Rome Barbara Rossing","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043429941591,"sku":"9781978703605","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978703605.jpg?v=1750958199","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/people-and-land-decolonizing-theologies-9781978703605","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}