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One family under God : immigration politics and progressive religion in America / Grace Yukich.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Yukich, Grace, 1980-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Noncitizens--United States.
Noncitizens.
Illegal immigration.
United States--Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--Christianity.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
What does progressive religion reveal about American ''family values?'' Grace Yukich shows how, in an anti-immigrant climate, religious activists in the New Sanctuary Movement call on Americans to keep immigrant families together by ending deportation.
Contents:
The new sanctuary movement
Changing hearts and minds
Sanctuary as religious conversion
Focusing on families
The art of balance
An immigrant rights organization without immigrants?
Who rules in the kingdom of God?
Storytelling and terminology
Research methodology.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-19-998868-4
OCLC:
922972233

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