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This book ´hunts and gathers´ across different historical epochs and situations, juxtaposing biblical materials and hip-hop, Christian colonialism and vodou, personal experience and racial politics, poetics and high theory, in order to challenge the current crisis of sustainability from the perspective indigenous communities and deep ancestry.

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PART I: PERSONAL INTRODUCTIONS: THE POLITICS AND ECO-LOGICS OF "SPIRITUAL" COMMUNICATION 1. From Sycamore Trees to Human Destiny: Reading the Wild at the Crossroads of Globalization and Apocalypse PART II: THE QUESTION IN THE BIBLICAL TRADITION: COMMUNICATION AND RESISTANCE 2. Cain´s Offering and Abel´s Cry: Reading Sabbath-Jubilee at the Crossroads of Farming and Foraging 3. Wild Weeds and Imperial Trees: Reading a Messianic Parable at the Crossroads of Settlement and the Wild PART III: THE QUESTION AND THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION: COMMUNICATION AND EMPIRE 4. Sinai Bush and Jordanian Dove Meet Haitian Snake and Amazonian Vine: Reading Christology at the Crossroads of Empire and Ecology 5. Christian Supremacy and Indigenous Savvy: Reading Race at the Crossroads of Europe and the Americas PART IV: THE QUESTION IN MODERNITY: COMMUNICATION AMONG THE SUBORDINATED 6. Underneath Guadalupe; Inside Ezili: Reading Possession at the Crossroads of Performance and Terror 7. Praying with the Corn/Playing on the Horn: Reading Jazz at the Crossroads of the Country and the City PART V: THE QUESTION IN POST-MODERNITY: COMMUNICATION AND GLOBALIZATION 8. DJ Qbert as Cyber-Maniac Shaman: Reading Dee-Jaying at the Crossroads of Tradition and Information 9. Grammar of Spirit Inside De-Industrial Ferment: Reading Hip-Hop Beats at the Crossroads of Blight and Order PART VI: PERSONAL CONCLUSION: COMMUNICATION AND SPIRITUALITY IN POST-COLONIAL PARTNERSHIP 10. Thinking from the Diaspora Back Toward the Homeland: Reading Humanity at the Crossroads of Alliance and Extinction.

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"After providing a compelling and cogent account of the peril that currently faces the planet, Perkinson lays out a blueprint for Christian theology and spirituality that will help to preserve humanity´s future. His ideas about how we can help ourselves out of this dangerous place represent perhaps the most important work and thinking of this sort in the past decade. I would recommend this book not only for religious studies classrooms but for any audience committed to a vision of religion that helps preserve our future here on earth." - Stephen G. Ray Jr., Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA

Political Spirituality in an Age of Eco-Apocalypse is a celebration of life. Perkinson warns that if thoughtful, proactive measures ranging from policy shifts to full-scale ontological about-faces are not sought, then our apocalyptic fears will most certainly materialize. The book outlines how a turn toward indigeneity and the cultural sensibilities of those on the margins of social worlds and scientific research might stave off destruction.´ Monica R. Miller, author of Religion and Hip Hop; Lehigh University, USA

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