Religion and social justice for immigrants / edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo.

Other author Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette.
Other author EBSCO Publishing (Firm)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,
Descriptionxii, 242 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Church work with immigrants--United States.
Immigrants--Religious life. --United States.
Social justice--Religious aspects. --Christianity.
Social justice--Religious aspects.
Christianity and justice.
Religion and justice.
United States--Emigration and immigration. --Religious aspects.

Contents Diverse approaches to faith and social justice for immigrants. Religion and a standpoint theory of immigrant social justice / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; Liberalism, religion, and the dilemma of immigrant rights in American political culture / Rhys H. Williams -- Religion, civic engagement, and immigrant politics. The moral minority : race, religion, and conservative politics in Asian America / Janelle S. Wong with Jane Naomi Iwamura ; Finding places in the nation : immigrant and indigenous Muslims in America / Karen Leonard ; Faith-based, multiethnic tenant organizing : the Oak Park story / Russell Jeung ; Bringing Mexican immigrants into American faith-based social justice and civic cultures / Joseph M. Palacios -- Faith, fear, and fronteras : challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border. The church vs. the state : borders, migrants, and human rights / Jacqueline Maria Hagan ; Serving Christ in the borderlands : faith workers respond to border violence / Cecilia Menjívar ; Religious reenactment on the line : a genealogy of political religious hybridity / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Genelle Gaudinez, and Hector Lara -- Faith-based nongovernmental organizations. Welcoming the stranger : constructing an interfaith ethic of refuge / Stephanie J. Nawyn ; The Catholic Church's institutional responses to immigration : from supranational to local engagement / Margarita Mooney -- Theology, redemption, and justice. Beyond ethnic and national imagination : toward a Catholic theology of U.S. immigration / Gioacchino Campese ; Caodai exile and redemption : a new Vietnamese religion's struggle for identity / Janet Hoskins.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 210-228) and index.
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LCCN 2006005582
ISBN0813539080 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813539099 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813539089 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813539096 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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