Where the Water Goes Around: Beloved Detroit

Wylie-Kellermann, Bill

ISBN 10: 1498296491 / ISBN 13: 9781498296496

Edité par Cascade Books, 2017

This book is in good condition. The cover has minor creases or bends. The binding is tight and pages are intact. Some pages may have writing or highlighting. N° de réf. du vendeur BRV.1498296491.G

Synopsis :

Where the Water Goes Around is a biblical and political reading of Detroit over the course of three decades by an activist pastor. Detroit is a place where one can take the temperature of the world. Think on the rise of Fordism and auto-love, the Arsenal of Democracy, the practice of the sit-down strike, or the invention of the expressway and suburban mall. Consider more recently the rebellion of 1967, the deindustrialization of a union town, the assault on democracy in this black-majority city, the structural adjustments of municipal bankruptcy, and now a struggle for water as a human right. Bill Wylie-Kellermann tells the story of working out his "place-based vocation" with a simultaneous commitment to gospel nonviolence. He evokes the place Anishinabe peoples tread lightly the banks of Wawiatanong, "where the waters go round." One narrative thread walks a procession through the streets, a contemporary "stations of the cross," to the locations of crucifixion today. It names the occupying principalities and their outposts on the ground. Another tells the story of resurrection in struggle and human community. Herein are public disruptions, liturgical direct actions, and courtroom trials. In resistance and risk, this book proclaims gospel in context.

À propos de l'auteur: Bill Wylie-Kellermann is a non-violent community activist and United Methodist pastor recently retired from St. Peter's Episcopal Church. A native Detroiter and graduate of Union Theological Seminary (NYC), he is connected to the Detroit Catholic Worker. In addition to Wipf and Stock titles, he has also authored Principalities in Particular: A Practical Theology of the Powers That Be, William Stringfellow: Essential Writings, and Dying Well: The Resurrected Life of Jeanie Wylie-Kellermann, . He is co-founder of Word and World: A Peoples' School and adjunct faculty at Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Detroit. He has been engaged in direct action for justice and peace now 5 decades, most recently with the Michigan Poor Peoples Campaign and the Detroit Water Struggle. In Jesus, he bets his life on the gospel non-violence, good news to the poor, Word made flesh, beloved community, and freedom from the power of death.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Where the Water Goes Around: Beloved Detroit
Éditeur : Cascade Books
Date d'édition : 2017
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : good