Spiritual Practices for Ecological Survival: Rituals of Resistance (Religion in the Modern World)

Carvalhaes invites readers into a spiritual practice of resistance and renewal for our climate-challenged world.At its heart lies a simple yet profound ritual of three gestures-rising, bowing, and prostrating-performed within one’s own bioregion as a way to reconnect body, spirit, and land.These embodied actions ground us in our places, teaching us to attend to the skies and trees above, to honor human and nonhuman neighbors around us, and to remember the histories beneath our feet. Carvalhaes situates this practice within a sweeping analysis of our global crises.He shows how ecological destruction, political violence, economic injustice, and social fragmentation all stem from a deeper spiritual crisis: our captivity to the spirit of capitalism.By tracing the colonial roots of our broken relationship with the earth and naming the ongoing struggles between destructive global forces and local lifegiving spirits, he exposes the urgent need for new forms of ritual and spirituality. Drawing