Political Spirituality in an Age of Eco-apocalypse ― Communication and Struggle Across Species, Cultures, and Religions

The book synthesizes material from a range of fields—anarcho-primitivism, biblical studies, history of religions among them—to present an argument for a 'turn to indigeneity' to address the apocalyptic emergency of our time. Its central question ('what does it mean to be a human being?') is posed not merely as philosophical inquiry or existential musing, but as a personal and political conundrum arising from the overwhelming crises now engulfing our global reality. It constitutes a poetic 'walk about' across quite different historical epochs and situations, juxtaposing biblical traditions of Jubilee to hip-hop concern for the urban underground, Euro-colonial racism to vodou possession, white Christian supremacy to renegade Guadalupe ritual, jazz improvisation to parabolic indirection. Creatively foraging for indigenous memories and insurgent energies available for living otherwise in our modern state of unsustainability, the work aims to re-animate love of the wild and 'interspecies listening' for the sake of survival.

James W. Perkinson is an activist/educator/poet in inner city Detroit and Professor of Social Ethics at the Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA. He is the author of White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity, Shamanism, Racism, and Hip-Hop Culture: Essays on White Supremacy and Black Subversion, and Messianism Against Christology: Resistance Movements, Folk Arts, and Empire.