Fire in the Canyon : Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream

• Tác giả: Leah Sarat
• ISBN-13: 978-0814724675
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : NYU Press, 2013.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (256 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 462082
• Chủ đề: 1. Pentecostalism--Social aspects--Mexico; 2. Social networks--Mexico; 3. Mouvement charismatique--Aspect social--Mexique; 4. Reseaux sociaux--Mexique; 5. Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects; 6. Emigration and immigration; 7. Pentecostalism--Social aspects; 8. Social networks; 9. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology; 10. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Emigration & Immigration

Tóm tắt

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. This book provides a look at the dynamic relationship between religion, migration, and ethnicity across the U.S.-Mexican border