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This review discusses Arvind-Pal S. Mandair's Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (hereafter RSW), published in 2009 by Columbia University Press.

Part 1. Social Justice and Harmony -- Chapter 1. Martin Luther King, Jr's Religious Primordium (Aaron Grizzell) -- Chapter 2. Betrayed by Accent: Theological Notes on a Racist Worldsound (Filipe Maia) -- Chapter 3. Baby Suggs and the Clearing Rock of Ages: Womanist Theoethic of Survival Justice (Valerie Miles-Tribble) -- Chapter 4. Climate Colonialism, Subversive Moral-Spiritual Power, and Religious Ethics (Cynthia Moe-Lobeda) -- Chapter 5. Lift Up to Drawdown: Empowering Women and Girls to Systemically Reverse Climate Change, and Relevance to Religious Communities (Felicia Chavez) -- Part 2. Religion and Sustainable Economics -- Chapter 6. Buddhist Sustainable Economics (Clair Brown) -- Chapter 7. A Critique of Economic Reason Between Tradition and Modernity (Purushottama Bilimoria) -- Chapter 8. A Threefold Approach of Ecology, Economy, and Theology to Face Climate change with Respect and Kindness (Myoung Ho-Sin) -- Chapter 9. Industrial Agriculture and Hindu Vaiṣṇava Animal Ethics Cogen Bohanec) -- Part 3. Philosophical and Theological Insights on Sustainability in Global Traditions -- Chapter 10. Tulsidas and Sustainability Through Respect of All Creation (Ramdas Lamb) -- Chapter 11. Awareness is Our Birthright: Mindfulness and the Sustainability of the Present (Thomas Calobrisi) -- Chapter 12. Chinese Images of Nature, Body, and Cosmos: Visualizing Human Physiology and Homeostasis with the Natural World (Anna Hennessy) -- Chapter 13. The Environmental Crisis of our Time: A Muslim Response (Yasin Dutton) -- Chapter 14. Relating to Nature: Rendering Nature Visible through Rituals in South Asia (Meera Baindur) -- Chapter 15. Environmental Philosophy of Buddhism (Padmasiri De Silva) -- Chapter 16. The Deified Cosmos: Maximos the Confessor and Sylouan the Athonite on the Deification of the Natural Order and the Love of Self (Thomas Cattoi) -- Part 4. Theoethics for a Sustainable World -- Chapter 17. The Ethics of Enchantment: Spirituality and Ecological Ethics (William O'Neill) -- Chapter 18. Justice and Salvation: Towards a Synergetic Sustainability (Andrea Vestrucci) -- Chapter 19. Come with Old Khayyam and Leave the Wise to Talk (Freya Matthews) -- Chapter 20. Healing Creation or Hearing Confession: The Role of Agency, Sickness and Repentance in the Current Ecological Crisis (Kyle Schiefelbein-Guerrero) -- Chapter 21. The Eschatological Family of Life on Earth: A Christian Response to Global Climate Change (Bob Russell) -- Chapter 22. Environmental Ethics and Sustainability in Indian Thought: Vision of Mahatma Gandhi (Rana P.B. Singh) -- Part 5. Art, Aesthetics, and Ecological Praxis -- Chapter 23. Cultivating Atmoshakti in Indian Villages: Rabindranath Tagore's Holistic, Grass-roots Model for Developing Sustainable Rural Communities (Colette Walker) -- Chapter 24. From the "Gardens" of the Qur'an to the Gardens of Lahore (James Wescoat) -- Chapter 25. Decolonizing Landscapes: Artistic Activism and Eco-religious Imagination (Yohana Junker) -- Chapter 26. Auroville: Land, Technology and the Micropolitics of Integral Living (Debashish Banerji) -- Chapter 27. Narrative, Imagination, Transformation: Towards an Engaged Hindu Eco-Aesthetic (Rita D. Sherma) -- Chapter 28. Ecocritism and Ecological Intentional Communities (Devin Zuber) -- Part 6. Sustainable Relations: Towards Interreligious Spiritual Hospitality -- Chapter 29. Interreligious Relations as Friendship: M.K. Gandhi and Charles Freer Andrews (Anantananda Rambachan) -- Chapter 30. Advaita Vedānta, Swami Vivekananda, and Sustainability (Jeffrey D. Long) -- Chapter 31. Complete Communion As Means To A Symbiotic Religious Identity (Pravina Rodrigues) -- Chapter 32. The Conditions of Hospitality in Interreligious Encounters (Joseph Prabhu).