In conversation with the ethical-theological-philosophical role of love in the Abrahamic traditions and U.S. immigration, personal testimonies of refugee families seeking asylum join the witness of the interfaith community of greater San Antonio to explain the gift received when love of God is expressed as radical hospitality.
In conversation with the ethical-theological-philosophical role of love in the Abrahamic traditions and U.S. immigration, personal testimonies of refugee families seeking asylum join the witness of the interfaith community of greater San Antonio to explain the gift received when love of God is expressed as radical hospitality.
Helen T. Boursier, PhD, is a public theologian, educator, author, activist, ordained minister, and artist who advocates for justice. She teaches gender studies; spirituality through a justice-informed lens to nursing and social work students; theology; and religious studies at the College of St. Scholastica. An ordained Presbyterian minister, she was a volunteer chaplain with displaced migrants at the US-Mexico border (2014-2022). Her books include Desperately Seeking Asylum: Testimonies of Trauma, Courage, and Love (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); The Ethics of Hospitality: An Interfaith Response to U.S. Immigration Policies (Lexington Books, 2019); Art as Witness: A Practical Theology of Arts-Based Research (Lexington Books, 2021); Willful Ignorance: Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum (Lexington Books, 2022); and Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders (forthcoming Fortress Press, 2024).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction to the Proposal and the Conversation Partners Part One: Setting the Context-Refugee Families seeking Asylum 1. Witness of the Refugee Families 2. The Intersection of Love and Migration in the Abrahamic Tradition 3. Interreligious Hermeneutic of Love for the Refugee Other Part Two: The Immigration Matrix and U.S. Ideology with Shapes Policies and Practices 4. The Immigration Matrix-A Systemic Overview 5. The Deep Symbols of U.S. Immigration Part Three: Systemic Contributions to Migration from the Northern Triangle 6. U.S. Systemic Culpability-Drugs, Guns, Gangs 7. Cultural Contributors to Sociocide in the Northern Triangle 8. The Dangerous Overland Journey to the U.S. Part Four: Immigration and the Refugee Family 'Detention' Experience 9. Welcome to the USA: Refugee Family Incarceration Trauma in CBP Facilities 10. Immigrant Family Detention-Also Known As 'Baby Jail' 11. Daunting 'Due Process' and the Credible Fear Interview Part Five: Crossing Borders and Welcoming Neighbors 12. An Interreligious Praxeology of Love Radical Hospitality-Welcoming the Stranger as Friend 13. Interfaith Love in Action: Practical Expressions of Radical Hospitality 14. Vulnerability and Dying to Self 15. 'Political Holiness' as the Interreligious Praxis of Love 16. Bibliography of Works Cited 17. Index 18. About the Author
Preface Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction to the Proposal and the Conversation Partners Part One: Setting the Context-Refugee Families seeking Asylum 1. Witness of the Refugee Families 2. The Intersection of Love and Migration in the Abrahamic Tradition 3. Interreligious Hermeneutic of Love for the Refugee Other Part Two: The Immigration Matrix and U.S. Ideology with Shapes Policies and Practices 4. The Immigration Matrix-A Systemic Overview 5. The Deep Symbols of U.S. Immigration Part Three: Systemic Contributions to Migration from the Northern Triangle 6. U.S. Systemic Culpability-Drugs, Guns, Gangs 7. Cultural Contributors to Sociocide in the Northern Triangle 8. The Dangerous Overland Journey to the U.S. Part Four: Immigration and the Refugee Family 'Detention' Experience 9. Welcome to the USA: Refugee Family Incarceration Trauma in CBP Facilities 10. Immigrant Family Detention-Also Known As 'Baby Jail' 11. Daunting 'Due Process' and the Credible Fear Interview Part Five: Crossing Borders and Welcoming Neighbors 12. An Interreligious Praxeology of Love Radical Hospitality-Welcoming the Stranger as Friend 13. Interfaith Love in Action: Practical Expressions of Radical Hospitality 14. Vulnerability and Dying to Self 15. 'Political Holiness' as the Interreligious Praxis of Love 16. Bibliography of Works Cited 17. Index 18. About the Author
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