People and Land by Jione Havea, Gemma Tulud Cruz, Steed Verny... - 9781978703629

People and LandDecolonizing Theologies\nAuthor(s): Jione Havea, Gemma Tulud Cruz, Steed Vernyl Davidson, Jude Lal Fernando, Jione Havea, Sifiso Mpofu, Kuzipa Nalwamba, Mitri Raheb, Garnett Roper, Barbara Rossing\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic\nISBN-13: 9781978703629, 978-1978703629\nSynopsis\nEmpires rise and expand by taking lands and resources and by enslaving the bodies and minds of people. Even in this modern era, the territories, geographies, and peoples of a number of lands continue to be divided, occupied, harvested, and marketed. The legacy of slavery and the scapegoating of people persists in many lands, and religious institutions have been co-opted to own land, to gather people, to define proper behavior, to mete out salvation, and to be silent.\n\nThe contributors to People and Land, writing from under the shadows of various empiresfrom and in between Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Caribb.