Fire in the Canyon : Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream / Leah Sarat.
2013
JV7409.Z6 E573 2016
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Title
Fire in the Canyon : Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream / Leah Sarat.
Author
Sarat, Leah, author.
ISBN
9780814724675
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
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©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814759370.001.0001 doi
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JV7409.Z6 E573 2016
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304.8097246
Summary
The canyon in central Mexico was ablaze with torches as hundreds of people filed in. So palpable was their shared shock and grief, they later said, that neither pastor nor priest was needed. The event was a memorial service for one of their own who had died during an attempted border passage. Months later a survivor emerged from a coma to tell his story. The accident had provoked a near-death encounter with God that prompted his conversion to Pentecostalism.Today, over half of the local residents of El Alberto, a town in central Mexico, are Pentecostal. Submitting themselves to the authority of a God for whom there are no borders, these Pentecostals today both embrace migration as their right while also praying that their "Mexican Dream"-the dream of a Mexican future with ample employment for all-will one day become a reality.Fire in the Canyon provides one of the first in-depth looks at the dynamic relationship between religion, migration, and ethnicity across the U.S.-Mexican border. Faced with the choice between life-threatening danger at the border and life-sapping poverty in Mexico, residents of El Alberto are drawing on both their religion and their indigenous heritage to demand not only the right to migrate, but also the right to stay home. If we wish to understand people's migration decisions, Sarat argues, we must take religion seriously. It is through religion that people formulate their ideas about life, death, and the limits of government authority.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
contents
acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I
1. Fire from Heaven
2. Living Crosses
3. I Lift Up My Eyes to the North
PART II
4. Send Us Power
5. To Crush the Devil's Head
6. Shielded by the Blood of Christ
PART III
7. The Night Hike
8. The Mexican Dream
Conclusion
glossary of spanish and hñähñu terms
notes
bibliography
index
about the author
contents
acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I
1. Fire from Heaven
2. Living Crosses
3. I Lift Up My Eyes to the North
PART II
4. Send Us Power
5. To Crush the Devil's Head
6. Shielded by the Blood of Christ
PART III
7. The Night Hike
8. The Mexican Dream
Conclusion
glossary of spanish and hñähñu terms
notes
bibliography
index
about the author