Showdown in the Sonoran Desert
Subtitle: religion, law, and the immigration controversy
By: Ananda Rose
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780199890934
Subjects: Illegal aliens; Religious aspects; Government policy; Emigration and immigration; Civil rights; Immigrants; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A window into the crisis: three nuns and a soup kitchen; title: Sanctuary old and new: the biblical tradition of radical hospitality; title: A theology of water: humane borders and the Reverend Robin Hoover; title: Transcending borders: no more deaths and a higher moral law; title: Postscript: riding with the Samaritans; title: Fencing Arizona: meditations on a wall; title: Invasions, floods, and barbarians: what's to be afraid of?; title: Senate bill-1070: wagers of love and fear at the border; title: Postscript: what would Jesus do?.