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One Family Under God - Immigration Politics and Progressive Religion in America (Hardcover, New)
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One Family Under God - Immigration Politics and Progressive Religion in America (Hardcover, New)
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Behind the walls of a church, Liliana and her baby eat, sleep, and
wait. Outside, protestors shout ''Go back to Mexico!'' and ''Tax
this political church!'' They demand that the U.S. government
deport Liliana, which would separate her from her husband and
children. Is Liliana a criminal or a hero? And why does the church
protect her? Grace Yukich draws on extensive field observation and
interviews to reveal how immigration is changing religious activism
in the U.S. In the face of nationwide immigration raids and public
hostility toward ''illegal'' immigration, the New Sanctuary
Movement emerged in 2007 as a religious force seeking to humanize
the image of undocumented immigrants like Liliana. Building
coalitions between religious and ethnic groups that had rarely
worked together in the past, activists revived and adapted
''sanctuary,'' the tradition of providing shelter for fugitives in
houses of worship. Through sanctuary, they called on Americans to
support legislation that would keep immigrant families together.
But they sought more than political change: they also pursued
religious transformation, challenging the religious nationalism in
America's faith communities by portraying undocumented immigrants
as fellow children of God. Yukich shows progressive religious
activists struggling with the competing goals of newly diverse
coalitions, fighting to expand the meaning of ''family values'' in
a globalizing nation. Through these struggles, the activists both
challenged the public dominance of the religious right and created
conflicts that could doom their chances of impacting immigration
reform.
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