Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration [electronic resource] /
Agosto, Efraín.editor.
Hidalgo, Jacqueline M.editor.
This book examines the conjunction between migration and biblical texts with a focus on Latinx histories and experiences. Essays reflect upon Latinxs, the Bible, and migration in different ways: some consider how the Bible is used in the midst of, or in response to, Latinx experiences and histories of migration; some use Latinx histories and experiences of migration to examine Biblical texts in both First and Second Testaments; some consider the "Bible" as a phenomenological set of texts that respond to and/or compel migration. Cultural, literary, and postcolonial theories inform the analysis, as does the exploration of how migrant groups themselves scripturalize their biblical and cultural texts.
1. Introduction: Reading the Bible and Latinx Migrations/the Bible as Text(s) of Migration -- 2. The Bible as Homing Device Among Cubans at Claremont's Calvary Chapel -- 3. Gendering (Im)migration in the Pentateuch's Legal Codes: A Reading from a Latina Perspective -- 4. Channeling the Biblical Exile as an Art Task for Central American Refugee Children on the Texas-Mexico Border -- 5. "Out of Egypt I Called My Son": Migration as a Male Activity in the New Testament Gospels -- 6. The Flight to Egypt: Toward a Protestant Mariology in Migration -- 7. Whence Migration? Babel, Pentecost, and Biblical Imagination  -- 8. Islands, Borders and Migration: Reading Paul in Light of the Crisis in Puerto Rico -- 9. Border Crossing into the Promised Land: The Eschatological Migration of God's People in Revelation 2:1-3:22  -- 10. Reading (Our)Selves in Migration: A Response.
This book examines the conjunction between migration and biblical texts with a focus on Latinx histories and experiences. Essays reflect upon Latinxs, the Bible, and migration in different ways: some consider how the Bible is used in the midst of, or in response to, Latinx experiences and histories of migration; some use Latinx histories and experiences of migration to examine Biblical texts in both First and Second Testaments; some consider the "Bible" as a phenomenological set of texts that respond to and/or compel migration. Cultural, literary, and postcolonial theories inform the analysis, as does the exploration of how migrant groups themselves scripturalize their biblical and cultural texts.
Bible-Theology.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Biblical Studies.
Latino Culture.
Latin American Culture.