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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.
List of contents
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.
About the author
Efraín Agosto is Professor of New Testament Studies at New York Theological Seminary. Previously, he served on the faculty of Hartford Seminary, and directed the Programa de Ministerios Hispanos there. He is the author of Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul (2005) and Corintios, a Spanish-language commentary of 1-2 Corinthians (2008).
Jacqueline M. Hidalgo is Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies and Religion at Williams College. The author of Revelation in Aztlán: Scriptures, Utopias, and the Chicano Movement (2016), her research examines the power of scriptural imaginaries, narratives, and material cultures in shaping relations of race and gender in the American West.
Summary
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.
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“This is an excellent and accessible read, and a necessary contribution to the library of every student of biblical studies and Latinx cultural studies.” (David Luckey, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, March 19, 2021)
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"This is an excellent and accessible read, and a necessary contribution to the library of every student of biblical studies and Latinx cultural studies." (David Luckey, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, March 19, 2021)
