This book focuses on the themes of border violence; racial
criminalization; competing hermeneutics of the sacred; and
State-sponsored modes of desacralizing black and brown-bodied
people, all in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands. It
provides a much-needed substantive response to the State's use of
sacrilization to justify its acts of violence and offers new ways
of theologizing the acceptance of the "other" in its place. As a
counter-hermeneutic of the sacred, the ultimate objective of the
book is to offer an alternative epistemological, theoretical and
practical framework that resacralizes the other. Rejecting the
State-driven agenda of othering border-crossers, it follows Gloria
Anzaldua's healing move to the Sacred Other and creates a new
hermeneutic of the sacred at the borderlands. One that resacralizes
those deemed by the State as the non-sacred human other anywhere in
the world. This is an important and topical book that addresses one
of the key issues of our time. As such, it will be of keen interest
to any scholar of Religious Studies and Liberation Theology as well
as religion's interaction with migration, race and contemporary
politics.
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