Fire in the Canyon : : Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream / / Leah M. Sarat.
The canyon in central Mexico was ablaze with torches as hundreds of people filed in. So palpable was their shared shock and grief, they later said, that neither pastor nor priest was needed. The event was a memorial service for one of their own who had died during an attempted border passage. Months...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- contents
- acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Fire from Heaven
- 2. Living Crosses
- 3. I Lift Up My Eyes to the North
- 4. Send Us Power
- 5. To Crush the Devil’s Head
- 6. Shielded by the Blood of Christ
- PART III
- 7. The Night Hike
- 8. The Mexican Dream
- Conclusion
- glossary of Spanish and hñähñu terms
- notes
- bibliography
- index
- about the author