A Better Understanding of Christianity… • Struggle with Christianity: some of its religions' treatment of

A Better Understanding of Christianity… • Struggle with Christianity: some of its religions' treatment of Indigenous Peoples • Colonization of Indigenous Peoples through RSS • Partnership with government to “assimilate” children into colonial society • “Take the Indian out of the child” by converting them • Instilling spiritual beliefs were inferior, demonic & immoral • Violence to achieve these e. [...] 148) • Significant teaching on how to go about activism Political Dimensions of Spirituality • Politics concerns the use of power to create and maintain a particular vision of life, involving the process of change and the efforts people make to bring about, influence, or resist change (Spretnak) • Critical spirituality unites spiritual/religious values and meaning systems with social and political.