Sacred Resistance: Eco-activism and the Rise of New Spiritual Communities

Five powerful case studies from embedded activist scholars bring readers to the frontlines of religious struggle against environmental degradation and show how it is intertwined with other forms of systemic oppression.

Weaving Together Resistance: Treaty Rights and Sacred Action to Stop Line 3
Winona LaDuke and Julia Nerbonne

Catholic Sisters and Cornfield Activism: The Fight for Green Religious Rights Mark Clatterbuck

Mana-Festing on a Sacred Mountain: Rites of Protection and Resistance to Protect Mauna Wākea, Marie Alohalani Brown

Circle of Protection: Yogis, Baptists, and Interspiritual Activists
Heidi Dhivya Berthoud and Swami Dayananda

Earth Quaker Action Team: Spirit in Action, Lina Blount and Eileen Flanagan

Mark Clatterbuck is a scholar-activist whose work straddles the fields of religion and culture, Indigenous studies, and Christian history and theology. A faculty member at Montclair State University, he has over fifteen years of experience in ethnographic fieldwork and grassroots direct-action campaigns. As the co-founder of Lancaster Against Pipelines, he was the movement’s non-violent mass action coordinator from 2014-2019.