Political Spirituality for a Century of Water Wars

This book offers resources for re-imagining the biblical vision of water for a time quickly emerging as "e;the century of water wars."e; 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 global climate crises intensify.  Concerned with both white supremacist "e;biopolitics"e; and continuing settler colonial reliance on the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, and beholden to an interreligious methodology of "e;crossing over and coming back,"e; the text creatively re-reads the biblical tradition under tutelage to the mythologies and practices of various indigenous cultures (Algonquian/Huron, Haitian/Vodouisant, and Celtic/Norman) whose embrace of water is animate and spiritual as well as political and communal. Not enough, today, merely to engage the political battle over water rights, however; indigenous wisdom and biblical prophecy alike insist that recovery of water spirituality is central to a sustainable future.