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Spiritual Practices for Ecological Survival

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Rituals of Resistance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvCláudio Carvalhaes

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Carvalhaes invites readers into a spiritual practice of resistance and renewal for our climate-challenged world. At its heart lies a simple yet profound ritual of three gestures—rising, bowing, and prostrating—performed within one’s own bioregion as a way to reconnect body, spirit, and land. These embodied actions ground us in our places, teaching us to attend to the skies and trees above, to honor human and nonhuman neighbors around us, and to remember the histories beneath our feet.Carvalhaes situates this practice within a sweeping analysis of our global crises. He shows how ecological destruction, political violence, economic injustice, and social fragmentation all stem from a deeper spiritual crisis: our captivity to the spirit of capitalism. By tracing the colonial roots of our broken relationship with the earth and naming the ongoing struggles between destructive global forces and local lifegiving spirits, he exposes the urgent need for new forms of ritual and spirituality.Drawing on theology, philosophy, indigenous wisdom, and ecology, the book develops key concepts such as bioregion, relationality, and “molecular revolutions”—small acts that can spark wide transformation. Alongside theory, Carvalhaes provides practical tools: reflective exercises, a bioregional quiz, and ritual guidance that make the work accessible for both classrooms and communities.Weaving scholarship and practice, critique and hope, Carvalhaes redefines what it means to live faithfully in our time. With poetic vision and prophetic urgency, he calls us to decolonize ourselves, reorient our desires, and embody gestures that generate new forms of communal life.This book offers students, professors, clergy, and general readers alike a path toward reconnection with the earth—and with one another—through ritualized practices of care, resistance, and hope.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-10-01
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieReligion in the Modern World
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798216449386

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Cláudio Carvalhaes is Professor of Worship at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. A theologian, liturgist, artist, and native Brazilian, he writes and teaches on liturgy, ecology, decoloniality, and ritual performance. He has authored several books, including Liturgies from Below and Rituals at World’s End, and holds a Ph.D. from Union. He has taught at McCormick, Louisville, and Lutheran seminaries.

A Preliminary NoteIntroductionRising, Bowing, Prostrating: Spiritual Practices For a Changing Earth—An OverviewCounteracting a 500-Year-Old Gesture: A New SpiritThe Spiritual PracticesThe spirit/Spirit/s in the BioregionGlobal spirit and Local spirit/Spirit/sDiscernment of the spirit/Spirit/sThe Economy of Beatitudes and ShimmeringThe Religiosities that Surround UsWhy a Ritual?An Aesthetic MovementBioregion and Other TermsBioregion—Preparation for the Spiritual PracticesOne More RoundUnderstanding Your Bioregion: A Brief QuizWhy a Gesture? Why this Gesture?Decolonizing Ourselves: The Re(li)gion We InhabitRituals: Bodies–Territories–Worlds Fetishes, Prayers, and SpiritualitiesMolecular RevolutionsReorienting Our Common Living In Theory and in Practice—Our Spiritual JourneyFlaco, A Molecular RevolutionThe Power of Ritualized Gestures Conclusion: Pay Attention and Tell a StoryAfterword - Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore

Fall in love with land and the places you exist! Reimagine a (k)new world where commodification, extraction, exclusion and ownership are no longer the forced norm. Activate your responsibility to belong to earth and all living things. Theologian-Author Claudio Carvalhaes is calling for new spiritual practices where every gesture and intention brings us into embodied relationality with our natural world. How absolutely refreshing to read something of this quality! Mahalo Claudio for describing the elephant in the room and how we can instead connect, honor, and become by rising, bowing and prostrating as three gestures of renewal and awakening. We do this collectively, one at a time. May the ideas within this book be planted in our hearts and may our spiritual practices exponentially alert the world to the evolutionary change we are now in. Ho?oulu aku, ho?oulu mai. Our growth is collective.