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The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives
on women's studies in religion in conversation with specific
contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributing
authors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse
socio-cultural-religious backgrounds. Themes move across the
spectrum of women's studies in religion, blurring the boundaries
beyond "religious studies" to include perspectives from ethics,
philosophy, sociology, economics, and law as. Religious diversity
addresses challenges for women's studies through the lens of Wicca,
Buddhist, Asian Trans Pacific, Hinduism, Judaism, Muslima, and
Christian. The handbook is practical, contemporary, and relevant as
it moves theory to practical application in the section on
challenging and changing system gender injustice with chapters on
sexual violence and the #MeToo movement, femicide and feminicide, a
Mohawk response to colonial dominion and violations to Indigenous
lands and women, and a religio-politico witness for love and
justice, include how to engage the theories of women's studies in
religion in the public square through civic engagement to create
empowerment for actual, practical change. It shows the future
movement of the becoming of women's studies with chapters digital
activism, reimagining women's mosque spaces online, minoritized
sexual identities, and spiritual homelessness, and charges readers
to see "hope now" by challenging and changing gender injustice.
Using ethnographic research, Willful Ignorance: Overcoming the
Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum
examines the attitudes of clergy and lay leaders regarding their
(in)attention to racism as it intersects with the harsh reality of
U.S. immigration policies and practices. This multi-faceted work
begins with a reality check on the scope of forced migration and
its intersection with the historical legacy of racism in America,
including testimonies from displaced migrants and immigration
advocates who help to alleviate state-inflicted suffering at the
U.S.-Mexico border. Helen T. Boursier examines the rationales
Christian leaders use to justify the local church's nominal
response, including the discursive buffers and stall tactics they
use to deflect their lack of preaching, teaching, leadership and/or
ministry with displaced migrants who are their near neighbors. The
Christian church's firm foundation to embody love as social justice
provides a historical rebuttal, while case studies of congregations
that offer displaced migrants compassionate hospitality model
exemplary contemporary response. Closing with practical suggestions
for how to begin building bridges with migrants, Boursier argues
for a philosophy of religion that embraces resistance to racism and
exclusion from asylum, through a missiology of compassion that
exemplifies an ecclesiology of love.
Set against an ethical-theological-philosophical framework of the
role of love in the Abrahamic tradition (Islam, Judaism, and
Christianity), The Ethics of Hospitality highlights the personal
witness of refugee families seeking asylum from the Northern
Triangle in Central America to the U.S. Their heart-wrenching
stories include why they fled their homelands, their experiences
along the arduous overland journey, and their inhospitable
reception when they arrived to the U.S. and requested asylum. It
includes an overview of the systemic connections between the U.S.
and the violence which catapults these families to seek safety. The
voices of the families join the witness of interreligious
volunteers of greater San Antonio who assist the refugee families
in diverse capacities and who testify to the mutual blessing they
receive when love of God, expressed as love of neighbor, becomes
central to the immigration conversation. Ultimately, the proposal
is that the interreligious community has the privilege and
responsibility to respond in love with refugees seeking asylum,
while also leading the outcry in the public square for their
radical welcome.
The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives
on women's studies in religion in conversation with specific
contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributing
authors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse
socio-cultural-religious backgrounds. Themes move across the
spectrum of women's studies in religion, blurring the boundaries
beyond "religious studies" to include perspectives from ethics,
philosophy, sociology, economics, and law as. Religious diversity
addresses challenges for women's studies through the lens of Wicca,
Buddhist, Asian Trans Pacific, Hinduism, Judaism, Muslima, and
Christian. The handbook is practical, contemporary, and relevant as
it moves theory to practical application in the section on
challenging and changing system gender injustice with chapters on
sexual violence and the #MeToo movement, femicide and feminicide, a
Mohawk response to colonial dominion and violations to Indigenous
lands and women, and a religio-politico witness for love and
justice, include how to engage the theories of women's studies in
religion in the public square through civic engagement to create
empowerment for actual, practical change. It shows the future
movement of the becoming of women's studies with chapters digital
activism, reimagining women's mosque spaces online, minoritized
sexual identities, and spiritual homelessness, and charges readers
to see "hope now" by challenging and changing gender injustice.
Art As Witness is an invitation for professors, researchers,
clergy, educators, students, and activists to creatively integrate
the arts in theology and religious studies for a practical theology
of arts-based research that prioritizes public witness. This
methodology challenges the traditional written word as being the
privileged norm, arguing that this emerging research genre is an
excellent, viable, and necessary option for research that supports,
promotes, and publicizes liberating theology for the marginalized,
victimized, and oppressed. It includes a detailed case study of
"Art Inside Karnes," the all-volunteer arts-based ministry of
presence the author facilitated inside a for-profit immigrant
family detention center that became the Power of Hope traveling art
exhibit for education, advocacy, and public witness. This primer
covers practical ethical, legal, and political matters; includes
pedagogical examples for how to use arts-based research for student
assessment in theology and religious studies; and provides an
overview of arts options, including literary genres, visual arts,
fabric arts, theater, filmmaking, and new media with digital
content. Art as Witness features 40 illustrations, several case
studies, and multiple contributing theologian-artists who engage
the arts in themes that include immigration, HIV/AIDS, biblical
studies, political protest, gender equity, gun law reform, racial
justice, and more.
Set against an ethical-theological-philosophical framework of the
role of love in the Abrahamic tradition (Islam, Judaism, and
Christianity), The Ethics of Hospitality highlights the personal
witness of refugee families seeking asylum from the Northern
Triangle in Central America to the U.S. Their heart-wrenching
stories include why they fled their homelands, their experiences
along the arduous overland journey, and their inhospitable
reception when they arrived to the U.S. and requested asylum. It
includes an overview of the systemic connections between the U.S.
and the violence which catapults these families to seek safety. The
voices of the families join the witness of interreligious
volunteers of greater San Antonio who assist the refugee families
in diverse capacities and who testify to the mutual blessing they
receive when love of God, expressed as love of neighbor, becomes
central to the immigration conversation. Ultimately, the proposal
is that the interreligious community has the privilege and
responsibility to respond in love with refugees seeking asylum,
while also leading the outcry in the public square for their
radical welcome.
The Meaning of My Neighbor's Faith addresses two of the most
critical challenges of our time: immigration and religious
diversity. The diverse group of contributors, representing a
variety of religious traditions, disciplines, and methodologies,
explore "the meaning of my neighbor's faith" in the age of
migration. Each author reflects on the meaning of religious
traditions in the context of the unprecedented migrations of people
who look and believe differently than their hosts. The volume is
the work of scholars dedicated to advancing religious understanding
of the debate and discussions on immigration in the light of
religious diversity in America and other places in the world.
Told through heart-wrenching testimonies, photographs, and artwork
of refugees fleeing their homelands, Desperately Seeking Asylum
describes first hand accounts of the harrowing and dangerous
journey immigrants are willing to endure knowing that they might
not even make it onto US soil. Desperately Seeking Asylum
prioritizes the testimonies of refugee families and unaccompanied
children who are seeking asylum in the U.S. from Central America,
primarily Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Their desperate and
heart-wrenching stories disclose why they fled their homelands,
their experiences along the treacherous overland journey, and the
harsh reality of how the U.S. treats these families and children
upon arrival to the U.S. It critiques U.S. complicity to the
violence they are fleeing and discloses how national leadership
shapes U.S. Immigration policies and practices, including the
blatant documented violations against asylum seekers at the
U.S.-Mexico border. Most notably, it offers transparency on U.S.
Immigration practices at the U.S.-Mexico border which violate
existing U.S. and international laws that are intended to protect
asylum seekers, including the current official practice of blocking
bridges with “turnbacks” to prevent “inadmissibles” from
applying for asylum in the U.S. It explains protections mandated by
U.S. law for unaccompanied children who are in U.S. custody, and
discloses violations which keep these children detained excessive
lengths of time in substandard for-profit facilities which are
overseen by the government and funded by taxpayers. Boursier also
deconstructs the complicated asylum process, including examining
the credible fear for asylum procedure, showing how technical terms
and language are used to justify injustice at the border.
Desperately Seeking Asylum offers hope for a new vision with
alternative options and practical actions which assist migrants
through humanitarian aid on both sides of the border. The witness
for compassionate and responsible response by people of conscious
becomes an antidote to injustice against asylum seekers. Instead of
the current administration manipulating U.S. laws to support its
ulterior motives and political agenda, Boursier asks readers to
hold U.S. elected officials accountable to the same “Rule of
Law” that the U.S. demands of refugees. Ultimately, Boursier
suggests a spectrum options for practical ways to make the
political personal through public witness and civic engagement to
transform the broken immigration process for refugees who are
desperately seeking asylum.
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