Resacralizing the Other at the Us-Mexico Border: A Borderland Hermeneutic

ISBN-13: 9781032083834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 172 str.

Gregory L. Cuéllar

Opis

This book focuses on the themes of border violence; racial criminalization; competing hermeneutics of the sacred; and State-sponsored modes of desacralizing black and brown-bodied people, all in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands.

Spis treści

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Trespassing on the Archive as the Border-Crossed Other; 3 The Sacralizing Performance of a Counter Archive; 4 The Desacralizing Power of Immigrant Detention; 5 Caring for the Sacred Other; 6 Afterword; Index

O autorze

Gregory L. Cuéllar is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, USA. He is the author of Voices of Marginality (2008) and Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century: Archival Criticism (2019).