Religion and social justice for immigrants / edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 242 p.

Table of Contents

Diverse approaches to faith and social justice for immigrants. Religion and a standpoint theory of immigrant social justice / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; Liberalism, religion, and the dilemma of immigrant rights in American political culture / Rhys H. Williams -- Religion, civic engagement, and immigrant politics. The moral minority : race, religion, and conservative politics in Asian America / Janelle S. Wong with Jane Naomi Iwamura ; Finding places in the nation : immigrant and indigenous Muslims in America / Karen Leonard ; Faith-based, multiethnic tenant organizing : the Oak Park story / Russell Jeung ; Bringing Mexican immigrants into American faith-based social justice and civic cultures / Joseph M. Palacios -- Faith, fear, and fronteras : challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border. The church vs. the state : borders, migrants, and human rights / Jacqueline Maria Hagan ; Serving Christ in the borderlands : faith workers respond to border violence / Cecilia Menjivar ; Religious reenactment on the line : a genealogy of political religious hybridity / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Genelle Gaudinez, and Hector Lara -- Faith-based nongovernmental organizations. Welcoming the stranger : constructing an interfaith ethic of refuge / Stephanie J. Nawyn ; The Catholic Church's institutional responses to immigration : from supranational to local engagement / Margarita Mooney -- Theology, redemption, and justice. Beyond ethnic and national imagination : toward a Catholic theology of U.S. immigration / Gioacchino Campese ; Caodai exile and redemption : a new Vietnamese religion's struggle for identity / Janet Hoskins.