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An urgent exploration of borders as sacred objects in American culture.
Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, "Heaven has a wall," activists shout back, "Jesus was a refugee." For Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, the standoff makes explicit a longstanding truth: borders are religious as well as political objects.
In this book, Hurd argues that Americans share a bipartisan border religion, complete with an array of beliefs and practices, including a reverence for national security, a liturgy for immigration, and an eschatological foreign policy. Through an analysis of the many ways the United States creates, enforces, and ignores borders at home and abroad, Hurd offers a bold new perspective on the ties that bind American religion, politics, and public life.
Contents
Introduction: Where People Come to Press Close to the Other Side
Chapter 1. Creating: The Liturgy of Asylum
Interlude I. Border/less
Chapter 2. Enforcing: National Security
Interlude II. Unbordered: Land without Law
Chapter 3. Suspending: AmericaIsrael
Interlude III. Crossing
Chapter 4. Refusing: Holy Death in the Borderlands
Interlude IV. Walking: Pilgrimage to Magdalena
Conclusion: The Ideal Border
Acknowledgments
Sources
Index
