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Record Nr.

UNINA9910861076903321

Autore

Cuéllar Gregory Lee

Titolo

Resacralizing the other at the US-Mexico border : A borderland hermeneutic / / Gregory L. Cuéllar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-000-02646-9

1-000-02644-2

0-429-32824-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Routledge new critical thinking in religion, theology, and biblical studies

Disciplina

230.046

201.7628991209721

Soggetti

Race relations - Religious aspects - Christianity

Immigration enforcement - Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions

Immigrants - Violence against - Mexican-American Border Region

Mexican-American Border Region - Race relations

Other (Philosophy) - Religious aspects - Christianity

Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions

United States Emigration and immigration Government policy History 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Trespassing on the archive as the border-crossed other -- The sacralizing performance of a counter archive -- The desacralizing power of immigrant detention -- Caring for the sacred other -- Afterword : humanitarian entrepreneurs of marketized migrant trauma -- index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the themes of border violence; racial criminalization; competing hermeneutics of the sacred; and State-sponsored modes of desacralizing black and brown-bodied people, all in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands. It provides a much-needed substantive response to the State's use of sacrilization to justify



its acts of violence and offers new ways of theologizing the acceptance of the "other" in its place. As a counter-hermeneutic of the sacred, the ultimate objective of the book is to offer an alternative epistemological, theoretical and practical framework that resacralizes the other. Rejecting the State-driven agenda of othering border-crossers, it follows Gloria Anzaldúa's healing move to the Sacred Other and creates a new hermeneutic of the sacred at the borderlands. One that resacralizes those deemed by the State as the non-sacred human other anywhere in the world. This is an important and topical book that addresses one of the key issues of our time. As such, it will be of keen interest to any scholar of Religious Studies and Liberation Theology as well as religion's interaction with migration, race and contemporary politics. --