Challenge to Civilization

Indigenous Wisdom and the Future

Blair A. Stonechild (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2024
University of Regina Press (Verlag)
978-0-88977-981-5 (ISBN)

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Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future.

Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a desire to endlessly exploit it and profit from it. Despite being a relatively recent development, civilization’s inherent logic has resulted in over-population, inequality, poverty, misery, war, and climate change and now threatens humanity’s very survival. How can humanity expect to survive if it continues to look for solutions from the very structures and ideologies that have brought it to the brink of extinction?

In this final book of his trilogy, Dr. Blair Stonechild deftly illustrates how Indigenous spirituality, wisdom, and land-based knowledge is critical to human survival in the face of environmental destruction and human-induced climate change. Reinterpreting world history from an Indigenous perspective, Stonechild’s solution to this unfolding catastrophe is “ecolization,” a state in which humans recognize they are not the central purpose of creation and a way of existing harmoniously with the natural and spiritual worlds.

Beautifully written, urgent, and critical, Challenge to Civilization reminds us that it is not Earth that is in danger of extinction, but ourselves, and Indigenous spiritual wisdom can be the guiding light through what will otherwise be humanity’s final, ever-darkening days.

Blair A. Stonechild is a member of the Muscowpetung First Nation in Saskatchewan. He is a residential school survivor and was the first faculty member hired at the First Nations University of Canada in 1976. He is an author of five previous books and lives in Regina with his wife Sylvia and three adult children.

Preface

Acknowledgements

ONE: Recalling Our Heritage

TWO: Breaking the Bond

THREE: Indigenous Apocalypse

FOUR: Knowledge and Wisdom

FIVE: Natural versus Artificial

SIX: Dangerous Minds

SEVEN: Culture as Lifestyle

EIGHT: Returning to Stewardship

NINE: Needing Allies

TEN: The Only Viable Path

Appendix: Seven Fires Prophecy

Glossary

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2024
Verlagsort	Regina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-88977-981-3 / 0889779813
ISBN-13	978-0-88977-981-5 / 9780889779815
Zustand	Neuware