Spirituality and abolition / Ashon Crawley, Roberto Sirvent, editors ; Abolition Collective.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crawley, Ashon, editor.

Sirvent, Roberto, editor.

Abolition Collective, issuing body.

Series:

Abolition: a journal of insurgent politics ; issue 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imprisonment--United States.

Imprisonment.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Spirituality--United States.

Spirituality.

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Prisoners as artists.

Prisoners as authors.

United States.

Physical Description:

199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, PA : Common Notions, [2023]

Summary:

"Abolition can be a spiritual practice, a spiritual journey, and a spiritual commitment. What does abolition mean and how can we get there as a collective and improvisational project? To posit the spirituality of abolition, is to consider the ways historical and contemporary movements against slavery, prisons, the wage system, animal and earth exploitation, racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence, and the death penalty necessitate epistemologies that have been foreclosed through violent force by Western thought of philosophical and theological kinds. It is also to claim that the material conditions that will produce abolition are necessarily Black, Indigenous, queer and trans, feminist, and also about disabled and other non-conforming bodies in force and verve. Spirituality and Abolition asks what can prison abolition teach us about spiritual practice, spiritual journey, spiritual commitment? And, what can these things underscore about the struggle for abolition as a desired manifestation of material change in worlds we inhabit currently? Collecting writings, poetry, and art from thinkers, organizers, and incarcerated people the editors trace the importance of faith and spirit in our ongoing struggle towards abolitionist horizons"-- Back cover.

Contents:

Section I: Practice

The Manual for Liberating Survival: Lesson 1, How Self-Care Matters as an Embodied Practice of Abolition

Resurrection at the Fractured Locus: Incarcerated Black Trans Embodiment and Decolonial Abolition Praxis

Reversing the Fragmentation: Searching for an Abolitionist Spirituality

Section II: Testimony

Spiritual Abolition: Or Something Like That

A Prayer for Abolition

Reflections on Spiritual Life and Abolition

Section III: Black Spiritual Study

Is, Was, and Is to Come: Freedom Dreamworld Dispatches

The Abolition of Hell: Abolitionist Interpretations of Jesus' Descent into Hell

God Is Blackness: Mysticism of the Unowned Earth

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781942173724

1942173725

OCLC:

1315537584

Publisher Number:

90104576342