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God and Caesar at the Rio Grande: Sanctuary and the Politics of Religion

by Hilary Cunningham
University of Minnesota Press, 1995
Paper: 978-0-8166-2457-7
Library of Congress Classification BV4466.C86 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 261.832

TOC

  • Contents 
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction. On the Steps of Sanctuary: Religion and Politics in the United States
    • 1. 
    • Sanctuary and Theoretical Frameworks: Anthropology, Religion, and Power
    • 2. 
    • Local History, Part 1: Declaring Sanctuary for Central Americans (July 1980 to December 1982)
    • 3. 
    • Local History, Part 2: The U.S. Sanctuary Movement on Trial (January 1983 to July 1986)
    • 4. 
    • Sanctuary and the Judeo-Christian Tradition
    • 5. 
    • Separation and Covenant: Church Sanctuary in the U.S. Tradition
    • 6. 
    • Creating “Social Space”: Sanctuary and the Reconstitution of “Church”
    • 7. 
    • Sanctuary and the Central American Odyssey
    • 8. 
    • Anatomy of an “Underground” Church
    • 9. 
    • Reconstructing Religious Identity and Practice: Churches, States, and the “Global Order”
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • Index
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