Unsettling Spirit

Denise M. Nadeau is affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University.Denise M. Nadeau is affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University.

"Nadeau turns her spiritual quest into a public pedagogical goal, engaging her activist and embodied experience with unrelenting courage through dialogue with a solid array of interdisciplinary research." Marilyn Legge, Emmanuel College of Victoria University

"Through stories with embodied practice and relationships with indigenous communities, Denise Nadeau brings light to the complexity and joys involved in shifting ways of being in respectful relationships with the earth and all living beings. Unsettling Spirit is a valuable read and resource for white settlers trying to engage meaningfully with decolonization." Juli Rees, director of education and human rights, Hospital Employees' Union

"I was both thrilled and unsettled to find such an honest account of another white woman settler's efforts to excavate her own relationship to colonial history, Indigenous ways of knowing. and political struggles. Unsettling Spirit reminded me once again that decolonization is a life-time endeavour filled with difficult conversations, beautiful encounters, humble moments, and new understandings of spirit. Denise Nadeau gives us the courage to be there, in the discomfort and openness, that is an inevitable part of any reconciliation process." Deborah Barndt, professor emerita, York University

"Denise Nadeau is fierce in Unsettling Spirit. Her pilgrimage through her faith journey shows the way to decolonizing with deep honesty and truth, laying a path for anyone brave enough to do the work that needs to be done." Marjorie Beaucage, Métis artist and community educator