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Foreword by Winona LaDuke
“At sunrise each morning, we were awakened in our tents to the sound of a drum and voice crying, ‘It’s time to wake up! We’re not here to camp, we’re here to pray!’ Ceremonies of water, fire, sweetgrass, and songs filled the air from morning to night.”
Five powerful case studies from embedded activist scholars bring readers to the frontlines of religious struggle against environmental degradation and show how it is intertwined with other forms of systemic oppression.
Weaving Together Resistance: Treaty Rights and Sacred Action to Stop Line 3 Winona LaDuke and Julia Nerbonne
Catholic Sisters and Cornfield Activism: The Fight for Green Religious Rights Mark Clatterbuck
Mana-Festing on a Sacred Mountain: Rites of Protection and Resistance to Protect Mauna W?kea, Marie Alohalani Brown
Circle of Protection: Yogis, Baptists, and Interspiritual Activists Heidi Dhivya Berthoud and Swami Dayananda
Earth Quaker Action Team: Spirit in Action, Lina Blount and Eileen Flanagan
Mark Clatterbuck is a scholar-activist whose work straddles the fields of religion and culture, Indigenous studies, and Christian history and theology. A faculty member at Montclair State University, he has over fifteen years of experience in ethnographic fieldwork and grassroots direct-action campaigns. As the co-founder of Lancaster Against Pipelines, he was the movement’s non-violent mass action coordinator from 2014-2019.
