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What are the consequences of living into the ecological relationships that Pope Francis proposes in Laudato Si? Simply put, ecomartyrdom--the murder of land and of environmental defenders. EcoMartyrdom illuminates the spiritualities that give life to those who are killed for struggling against the anti-social logic of extractivism and argues for a capacious theology of martyrdom that recognizes how Creation (human and more-than-human) is sacrificed to the idols of capitalism, racism, and patriarchy. Gandolfo makes presente a Latin American prophetic vision where everything is alive and where resurrection continues in a people's ongoing journey toward an-other world already in our midst. Beautifully written with piercing analysis, it is a book for re-forming the church unto solidarity with all Creation. -- Leo Guardado, Fordham University

"""Theology is at its best when it centers the margins, and Gandolfo's book is an excellent addition to a prophetic legacy pleading for the interruption of extractivism. The convenience we enjoy costs too much if the price is the health and welfare of others. We are living too shortsightedly if our enjoyment of the earth's spoils does not take into account the long-term detriment of creation.""- Chris Burton, Christian Century Book Review ""From �scar Romero to Marielle Franco and the Guardians of the Amazon Forest, we live among the living memories of those who were assassinated for fighting for our common home and holding our common life together. Gandolfo gives us an absolutely timely book that helps us to understand that, unless we remember those who are gone and join in the struggle of those still protecting the earth and our common living, we won't have any world left in which to live. ""--Cl�udio Carvalhaes, author, Ritual at World's End: Essays on Eco-Liturgical Liberation Theology ""Gandolfo makes presente a Latin American prophetic vision where everything is alive and where resurrection continues in a people's ongoing journey toward another world already in our midst. Beautifully written with piercing analysis, it is a book for re-forming the church into solidarity with all Creation.""--Leo Guardado, Fordham University ""Beautifully written and profound in its insight, Ecomartyrdom in the Americas is a timely and urgent call to conversion.""--Daniel P. Castillo, author, An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Salvation and Political Ecology"

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Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo is Edith B. and Arthur E. Earley Assistant Professor of Catholic and Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Winston-Salem, NC. She is the author of The Power and Vulnerability of Love: A Theological Anthropology and co-author of Re-membering the Reign of God: The Decolonial Witness of El Salvador's Church of the Poor.

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