Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
50. How does resource extraction impact Native American religious practices?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Richard J Callahan, Jr. [+]
Gonzaga University
Richard J. Callahan, Jr., teaches at Gonzaga University. He is the author of Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust; editor of New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase; and co-editor of The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Religion and Popular Culture. His work is particularly interested in the intersections and co-constitutions of religion, labor, and natural resource extraction.
Description
Natural resource extraction can disrupt relationships between human and other-than-human beings in land-based religions. Indigenous perspectives on natural resource extraction raise ontological and epistemological questions problematizing Eurocentric perspectives on religion.