Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars The Angel of the Jordan Meets the Trickster of Detroit /

• Main Author: Perkinson, James W. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Theology.; Bible-Theology.; Ethics.; Christian Theology.; Biblical Studies.

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 Detroit water shutoffs as glob...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Politics and Spirit in the Emerging Water War: Crossing Over and Coming Back
• Chapter 1 Water Monopoly at the Strait: White Supremacy and Biopower
• Chapter 2 Water Struggle along the Border: Settler Colonialism and Christian Dominion
• Chapter 3 Water Story around the Bend: The Windigo Monster and the Nanabozho Trickster
• Chapter 4 Water Spirituality beyond the Basin: Detroit Dwarf, Celt Hound, Afro-Orisha
• Chapter 5 Water Combat on the Coast: Canaanite Storm-Gods and Israelite Wind-Spirits
• Chapter 6 Water Divination around the Jordan: The Ford-Fight of Jacob and the Water-Test of Jesus
• Chapter 7 Water Prophecy from the Wadi: River-Rites, Fish-Signs, and Rain-Promises
• Chapter 8 Water Wars on a Living Planet: The Globe and the Strait.