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Bristol
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Colonial violence and White Transcendence
Colonialism
Colonialism and Religion in Biopolitical Theories of Modern Racism
Cornish
Cornish mining
cultural genocide
Cultural or religious racism
Eco-feminist and Indigenous Theories
ecology
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Evangelical Movement
Evangelical Subjectification
Existing materialist histories of Methodism
Exorcism
Family Debilitation
geological consciousness
geology
Geopower
Indigenous schools
metaphysics
Methodism
Methodist education
Mining
Ojibwe
Racial capitalism
religion
Religion Racism
Religious Biopolitics
Savage
settler colonialism
the Aboriginal Protection Society
the Evangelical Movement in 19th century Britain
The Geological Turn
Product details
- ISBN 9781526176509
- Weight: 515g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Spirits of extraction revisits the troubling history of socially reformist, ostensibly anti-racist, Christianity and its role in the expansion of the extractive industries, British imperialism, and settler colonialism. The book explores key moments in the history of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Colonial fears, and the attempt to ‘civilise savages’, were crucial to the movement’s foundation in eighteenth-century industrialising Bristol, England. Through the culture of the Cornish mining diaspora of the nineteenth century, Methodism enmeshed with all the complexity of race and labour-structures of the British empire. At the same time, in Anishinaabewaki/Upper Canda/Ontario, Methodist missionaries laid the foundation of abusive education and racialised ideas of redemption that both enable and sacralise the mining industry. Through these histories of our present, the book theorises the relation of religion and education to racism, modernity, biopower, extractivism, and the geology of race.
Claire Blencowe is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick
