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Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation

Name: Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation
Brand: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
SKU: 9780800636814
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Contributors:

George E. Tinker

Publisher:

Augsburg Fortress Publishing

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Sociology of Religion

Book Topic:

American

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Release Date:

2004-09-01

ISBN 13:

9780800636814

Weight:

0.5 lbs

Size:

9.16 x 5.97 x 0.36 inches

Pages:

144

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Description

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.

About the Author
Tinker, George E.: -

George E. ''Tink'' Tinker is Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado. He is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation. Among his many publications are Missionary Conquest (Fortress Press, 1993) and Native American Theology (co-authored, 2001).