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Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation

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Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation

Writing from a Native American perspective, theologian George Tinker probes American Indian culture, its vast religious and cultural legacy, and its ambiguous relationship to the tradition-historic Christianity-that colonized and converted it.

After five hundred years of conquest and social destruction, he says, any useful reflection must come to terms with the political state of Indian affairs and the political hopes and visions for recovering the health and well-being of Indian communities. Does Christian theology have a positive role to play?

Tinker's work offers an overview of contemporary native American culture and its perilous state. Critical of recent liberal and New Age co-opting of Native spiritual practices, Tinker also offers a critical corrective to liberation theology. He shows how Native insights into the Sacred Other and sacred space helpfully reconfigure traditional ideas of God, Jesus' notion of the reign of God, and our relation to the earth. From this basis he offers novel proposals about cultural survival and identity, sustainability, and the endangered health of Native Americans.

Country	USA
Author	George E. Tinker
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781451408416
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Fortress Press
Manufacturer	Fortress Press
NumberOfPages	156
PublicationDate	2004-09-01
Publisher	Fortress Press
ReleaseDate	2004-08-31
Studio	Fortress Press

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