RT Article
T1 The Stones Cry Out and the Trees Talk: A Praxis of Epistemic Disobedience Toward a Settler Theology of Aurality
JF Political theology
VO 24
IS 7
SP 739
OP 755
A1 Morgan, Joëlle M.
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1870622693
AB Epistemic disobedience (Mignolo) to settler-coloniality in Canada requires conscientisation to Indigenous peoples’ stories and a decolonial turn (Maldonado-Torres) in epistemology and ontology of relations (Tinker) between Indigenous and settler peoples. One group of primarily settler Christians on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin/Anishnaabe territory engaged such a praxis, through Right Relations with their United Church in Ottawa, toward social healing (Lederach and Lederach) of colonial wounds, transformationally engaging in oral-aural praxis to relationally receive hi/stories of local Indigenous communities. Stan McKay, Cree elder and former moderator of the United Church of Canada, through Indigenous peoples’ understanding of creation invites a decolonial turn with hermeneutical listening in which one hears teachings of Jesus as cry of creation – such that even “the stones cry out” (Luke 19:40) and the trees teach – which has implications for a settler theology of aurality.
K1 Liberation Theology
K1 United Church
K1 decolonial healing
K1 Settler Colonialism
K1 settler
K1 Indigenous
K1 Coloniality
DO 10.1080/1462317X.2023.2273624