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Subversive Spiritualities - How Rituals Enact the World (Hardcover, New)
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Subversive Spiritualities - How Rituals Enact the World (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series
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Even in the twenty-first century some two-thirds of the world's
peoples-the world's social majority-quietly live in non-modern,
non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multitudinous voices of
the spirits, deities, and other denizens of the other-than-human
world continue to be heard, continue to be loved or feared or both,
continue to accompany the human beings in all their activities. In
this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work
with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her
argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such
traditional peoples are ''eco-metaphysically true.'' In other
words, they recognize that human beings are in communion with other
beings in nature that have agency and are kinds of spiritual
intelligences, with whom humans can be in relationship and
communion. Ritual is the medium for communicating, reciprocating,
creating and working with the other-than-humans, who daily remind
the humans that the world is not for humans' exclusive use.
Apffel-Marglin argues moreover, that when such relationships are
appropriately robust, human lifeways are rich, rewarding, and in
the contemporary jargon, environmentally sustainable. Her ultimate
objective is to ''re-entangle'' humans in nature-she is, in the
final analysis, promoting a spirituality and ecology of belonging
and connection to nature, and an appreciation of animistic
perception and ecologies. Along the way she offers provocative and
poignant critiques of many assumptions, including of the
''development'' paradigm as benign (including feminist forms of
development advocacy), of the majority of anthropological and other
social scientific understandings of indigenous religions, and of
common views about peasant and indigenous agronomy. She concludes
with a case study of the fair trade movement, illuminating both its
shortcomings (how it echoes some of the assumptions in the
development paradigms) and its promise as a way to rekindle
community between humans as well as between humans and the
other-than-human world.
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