Rebels, Despots, and Saints
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Rebels, Despots, and Saints

The Ancestors Who Free Us and The Ancestors We Need to Free

  1. 222 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Rebels, Despots, and Saints

The Ancestors Who Free Us and The Ancestors We Need to Free

About this book

In decades of community organizing, racial justice, and pastoral work, Sandhya Rani Jha has discovered that communities and individuals who honor and recognize their ancestors tend to thrive and navigate hard seasons with more ease. People of color and white people alike have a myriad of ancestors (biological, cultural, and movement) who can help us navigate the challenges of today by learning from both the wisdom and follies, the suffering and overcoming, the spiritual practices and the acts of resistance that our ancestors navigated…and sometimes created. With an approachable and conversational tone, Rebels, Despots, & Saints shares case studies of activists and spiritual leaders as well as ways to re-think who our ancestors are and how to relate to them. Writing and discussion prompts and suggestions for personal and community rituals provide readers the tools needed to connect with their own ancestors and find grounding for racial reconciliation and liberation in their own communities. These reflections always connect to the work of dismantling white supremacy as a spiritual practice.

Information

Publisher
Chalice Press
eBook ISBN
9780827233195
Year
2023

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Rebels, Despots, & Saints
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. SECTION I: The Trouble With Ancestors
  7. Chapter One: Romanticized Ancestors
  8. Chapter Two: Embarrassing and Overlooked Ancestors
  9. Chapter Three: Atrocious Ancestors
  10. Chapter Four: Ancestors who break our hearts
  11. Chapter Five: Inheriting Ancestral Trauma
  12. SECTION II: The Gifts of Ancestors
  13. Chapter Six: Cultural Ancestors
  14. Chapter Seven: Movement Ancestors
  15. Chapter Eight: Spiritual Ancestors
  16. SECTION III: How to integrate our ancestors
  17. Chapter Nine: Landscape Ancestors
  18. Chapter Ten: Claiming Our Ancestors as Part of Our Journey to Wholeness
  19. Chapter Eleven: Being the Ancestors Our Descendants Need
  20. Postscript
  21. Glossary
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Back Cover

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