6 Top social justice books like Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization (Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series) by Elaine Enns

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Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization (Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series)

By: Elaine Enns

4.50

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Healing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent…

If you liked the social justice plot in Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization (Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series) by Elaine Enns , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. State of Wonder

By: Ann Patchett

3.90

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual tra… read more

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"One must not be shy where language is concerned."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

"Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

"In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

"It was not as natural as it appeared. It was more like milking a cow, easy as long as someone else was doing it."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

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2. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • history
  • social justice
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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3. Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy, and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm

By: Maggie Siggins

4.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

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4. God of the Oppressed

By: James H. Cone

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

God of the Oppressedremains a landmark in the development of Black Theology--the first effort to pr… read more

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  • theology
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5. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • history
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6. Indian Horse

By: Richard Wagamese

4.42

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant reside… read more

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"I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are."

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unra…"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past shoals and through rapids and into magnificent stretches of water. One day the clouds …"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never gave a thought to being deprived as we travelled, to be…"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

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7. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

By: Kate Bowler

3.80

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of… read more

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"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

8. Silence

By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more

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9. LaRose

By: Louise Erdrich

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winn… read more

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10. People of the Whale

By: Linda Hogan

4.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A powerful story of a Vietnam veteran torn between his war experience and his Native American commu… read more

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11. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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12. The Prophets

By: Susannah Heschel , Abraham Joshua Heschel

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in religious studies and the author of Man Is Not Aloneand God in… read more

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13. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

By: Parker J. Palmer

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teach… read more

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14. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • native american
  • indigenous
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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15. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

4.18

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more

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  • social justice
  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
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16. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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17. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

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18. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.63

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more

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  • theology
"Anxiety is not a passive predator."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

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19. Remember

By: Joy Harjo

4.42

Format: 40 pages, None

Michaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, … read more

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  • native american
  • indigenous
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20. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

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  • history
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21. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

By: Sarah Bessey

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more

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  • theology
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"

-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

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22. Poet Warrior: A Memoir

By: Joy Harjo

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this co… read more

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  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
"Our physical living is held together by plant sacrifice. We eat, wear, and are sheltered by plants and plant material. Nearly all of our medicines are plant-derived. We need to take time with them, g…"

-Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir

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23. God Is a Black Woman

By: Christena Cleveland

4.32

Format: 256 pages, ebook

In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland… read more

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  • theology
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24. My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church

By: Amy Kenny

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection,… read more

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  • social justice
  • theology
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25. Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice rec… read more

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  • social justice
  • native american
  • indigenous
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26. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • social justice
  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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27. Invitation to Retreat: The Gift and Necessity of Time Away with God (Transforming Resources)

By: Ruth Haley Barton

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"Come away and rest awhile." Jesus invites us to be with him, offering our full and undivided a… read more

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28. Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions

By: Tomson Highway

4.15

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasu… read more

Similar categories in Tomson Highway's Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions book and Elaine Enns's Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization (Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series)

  • history
  • indigenous
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29. Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization (Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series)

By: Elaine Enns

4.50

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Healing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • social justice
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30. Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble

By: Stephen Jenkinson

4.23

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In his landmark provocative style, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case that we must birth a new genera… read more

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31. Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry: Conversations on Creation, Land Justice, and Life Together

By: Steve Heinrichs

4.41

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

How can North Americans come to terms with the lamentable clash between indigenous and settler cult… read more

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  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • theology

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4.32

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James Baldwin

3.54

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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Ned Blackhawk

4.18

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Camille T. Dungy

4.19

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3.79

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4.51

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