Religion and Social Justice For Immigrants / / ed. by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo.
Religion has jumped into the sphere of global and domestic politics in ways that few would have imagined a century ago. Some expected that religion would die as modernity flourished. Instead, it now stares at us almost daily from the front pages of newspapers and television broadcasts. Although it i...
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Year of Publication: | 2006 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PART I. Diverse Approaches to Faith and Social Justice for Immigrants
- 1. Religion and a Standpoint Theory of Immigrant Social Justice
- 2. Liberalism, Religion, and the Dilemma of Immigrant Rights in American Political Culture
- PART II. Religion, Civic Engagement, and Immigrant Politics
- 3. The Moral Minority: Race, Religion, and Conservative Politics in Asian America
- 4. Finding Places in the Nation: Immigrant and Indigenous Muslims in America
- 5. Faith-Based, Multiethnic Tenant Organizing: The Oak Park Story
- 6. Bringing Mexican Immigrants into American Faith-Based Social Justice and Civic Cultures
- PART III. Faith, Fear, and Fronteras: Challenges at the U.S.-Mexico Border
- 7. The Church vs. the State: Borders, Migrants, and Human Rights
- 8. Serving Christ in the Borderlands: Faith Workers Respond to Border Violence
- 9. Religious Reenactment on the Line: A Genealogy of Political Religious Hybridity
- PART IV. Faith-Based Nongovernmental Organizations
- 10. Welcoming the Stranger: Constructing an Interfaith Ethic of Refuge
- 11. The Catholic Church’s Institutional Responses to Immigration: From Supranational to Local Engagement
- PART V. Theology, Redemption, and Justice
- 12. Beyond Ethnic and National Imagination: Toward a Catholic Theology of U.S. Immigration
- 13. Caodai Exile and Redemption: A New Vietnamese Religion’s Struggle for Identity
- REFERENCES
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX