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Author Sarat, Leah, author.

Title Fire in the canyon : religion, migration, and the Mexican dream / Leah Sarat.

Publication Info. New York : NYU Press, 2013.
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Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents Fire from Heaven ; Living Crosses ; I Lift Up My Eyes to the North -- Send Us Power ; To Crush the Devil's Head ; Shielded by the Blood of Christ -- The Night Hike ; The Mexican Dream -- Conclusion -- Glossary of Spanish and Hñähñu Terms.
Language English.
Subject El Alberto (Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration.
El Alberto (Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Pentecostal churches.
El Alberto (Mexico) -- Religious life and customs.
Pentecostalism -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- El Alberto.
Social networks -- Mexico -- El Alberto.
Mouvement charismatique -- Aspect social -- Mexique -- El Alberto.
Réseaux sociaux -- Mexique -- El Alberto.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Pentecostal churches
Emigration and immigration
Pentecostalism -- Social aspects
Social networks
Other Form: Print version: Sarat, Leah. Fire in the canyon 9780814759370 (DLC) 2013022622 (OCoLC)844308841
ISBN 9780814724675 (electronic bk.)
0814724671 (electronic bk.)
9780814759370
0814759378
9781583673157
1583673156
1479839787
9781479839780
Standard No. AU@ 000054195593
AU@ 000073113467
CHNEW 000639637
DEBBG BV041632865
DEBBG BV043033557
DEBSZ 421242493
DEBSZ 44938554X
NZ1 15317842

 
    
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