8. Serving Christ in the Borderlands: Faith Workers Respond to Border Violence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. PART I. Diverse Approaches to Faith and Social Justice for Immigrants
5. 1. Religion and a Standpoint Theory of Immigrant Social Justice 3
6. 2. Liberalism, Religion, and the Dilemma of Immigrant Rights in American Political Culture 16
7. PART II. Religion, Civic Engagement, and Immigrant Politics
8. 3. The Moral Minority: Race, Religion, and Conservative Politics in Asian America 35
9. 4. Finding Places in the Nation: Immigrant and Indigenous Muslims in America 50
10. 5. Faith-Based, Multiethnic Tenant Organizing: The Oak Park Story 59
11. 6. Bringing Mexican Immigrants into American Faith-Based Social Justice and Civic Cultures 74
12. PART III. Faith, Fear, and Fronteras: Challenges at the U.S.-Mexico Border
13. 7. The Church vs. the State: Borders, Migrants, and Human Rights 93
14. 8. Serving Christ in the Borderlands: Faith Workers Respond to Border Violence 104
15. 9. Religious Reenactment on the Line: A Genealogy of Political Religious Hybridity 122
16. PART IV. Faith-Based Nongovernmental Organizations
17. 10. Welcoming the Stranger: Constructing an Interfaith Ethic of Refuge 141
18. 11. The Catholic Church’s Institutional Responses to Immigration: From Supranational to Local Engagement 157
19. PART V. Theology, Redemption, and Justice
20. 12. Beyond Ethnic and National Imagination: Toward a Catholic Theology of U.S. Immigration 175
21. 13. Caodai Exile and Redemption: A New Vietnamese Religion’s Struggle for Identity 191
22. REFERENCES 210
23. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 229
24. INDEX 231