Among the rapidly expanding discourses on religion in extractive zones, focused attention to the particularities of local contestations around the sacred, economic opportunity versus precarity, and ecological destruction is increasingly important. Pranger's text precisely fits this need. Rooted in a close analysis of diverse religious responses to the 21st century North Dakota fracking boom, Pranger gives context for these responses by demonstrating the influence of long histories of settler colonial and extractivist theologies. For the increasing number of communities struggling to respond to the impacts of extractivism, the religious leaders who advise them, and the scholars who analyze them, Pranger's study will be a vital resource.

Terra Schwerin Rowe, University of North Texas

This book stands out as an important study of the entanglement of settler colonialism, extractivism, and religion. It combines empirical studies with careful theological judgment, demonstrating in detail the deeply problematic cluster of challenges behind the celebrated 'ways of life' of which only the ignorant can be proud. If one wants to learn what extractivism entails negatively for ordinary people, and how religion can be abused for all the wrong purposes, this is a good book to start with.

Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society

Jan Pranger argues that resource extraction and settler colonialism pose not only moral but also theological challenges for U.S. churches to grapple with. Churches must respond to these challenges because they threaten our most precious relationships-to the natural world, to our communities, even to ourselves. The answer lies in decolonizing settler theology, but while decolonization is the responsibility of settler churches, this work must be done in collaboration with Indigenous peoples. Powerfully, but humbly, Pranger imagines what this work can look like, from remembering and listening, to returning stolen Indigenous lands

Dana Lloyd, Villanova University