ABSTRACT

This chapter traces how settler colonialism has marginalized and brutally suppressed land-based forms of spirituality in the Americas and early Europe. We explore the erasure of women’s ways of knowing, immanent modes of philosophical and spiritual concepts, and European shamanic traditions. The chapter focuses on alternative ecologically entangled kinship networks in material modes of immanent spirituality. Refusing a nostalgic reading of pagan practices in Europe, the chapter draws on the force of immanent spirituality in the twenty-first-century practices that both refuse colonial settler logic and open new capacities for living sets of relations.