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Author Sarat, Leah, author

Title Fire in the canyon : religion, migration, and the Mexican dream / Leah Sarat
Published New York : NYU Press, 2013

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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
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
Notes English
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Subject Pentecostalism -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- El Alberto
Social networks -- Mexico -- 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
SUBJECT El Alberto (Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration
El Alberto (Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Pentecostal churches
El Alberto (Mexico) -- Religious life and customs
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814724675
0814724671