Spiritual activism in the context of US Energy infrastructure*

ABSTRACT In this piece, I propose using a spiritual activism framework among like-minded communities to create a stronger opposition to the materialist mainstream worldview that promotes the commodification of the Earth and allows for unsustainable and damaging energy extraction. I suggest that spiritual activism is especially useful in this context because it illuminates the underlying philosophical differences that created clashes between Indigenous and European-Americans, and because it opens a way for members of groups with various Earth-based spiritual beliefs to move forward in concert.