FOREWORD BY LINDA ELLERBEE "Tales" is an anthology of essays about Talpa de Allende, and other mountain villages in the western Sierra Madre of Mexico. It is about people places, and happenings. It is about the miraculous healings of a tiny 400 year old virgin. It takes you on a riotous tour of rural ares of the state of Jalisco. it tells stories about who donates their hair for this Virgins wig, Do Talpa's horses sometimes wear panty hose? What is a pajareta? Is agave liquor really explosive? The culmination of the book comes with "The Woman in The Trunk." It begins with the discovery in the...

Book is a description of US consular agent experiences in Puerto Vallarta from 1982 - 1996 as told in an anecdotal style.

Given increasing global migration and the importance of positive cross-cultural relations across national borders, this book offers an interdisciplinary and intercultural exploration of identity formation. It uniquely draws from theology, psychology, and sociology--engaging narrative and identity theories, migration and identity studies, and the theologies of identity and migration--and builds on them in an unprecedented study of international migrants to construct an initial theology of Christian identity in migration. New sociological research describes the social construction of religious,...