Religion and social justice for immigrants / edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Religion and a standpoint theory of immigrant social justice / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- Liberalism, religion, and the dilemma of immigrant rights in American political culture / Rhys H. Williams -- Religion, civic engagement, and immigrant politics -- The moral minority : race, religion, and conservative politics in Asian America / Janelle S. Wong with Jane Naomi Iwamura -- Finding places in the nation : immigrant and indigenous Muslims in America / Karen Leonard -- Faith-based, multiethnic tenant organizing : the Oak Park story / Russell Jeung -- Bringing Mexican immigrants into American faith-based social justice and civic cultures / Joseph M. Palacios -- Faith, fear, and fronteras : challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border -- The church vs. the state : borders, migrants, and human rights / Jacqueline Maria Hagan -- Serving Christ in the borderlands : faith workers respond to border violence / Cecilia Menjívar -- Religious reenactment on the line : a genealogy of political religious hybridity / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Genelle Gaudinez, and Hector Lara -- Faith-based nongovernmental organizations -- Welcoming the stranger : constructing an interfaith ethic of refuge / Stephanie J. Nawyn -- The Catholic Church's institutional responses to immigration : from supranational to local engagement / Margarita Mooney -- Beyond ethnic and national imagination : toward a Catholic theology of U.S. immigration / Gioacchino Campese -- Caodai exile and redemption : a new Vietnamese religion's struggle for identity / Janet Hoskins.

Religion has jumped into the sphere of global and domestic politics in ways that few would have imagined a century ago. Some expected that religion would die as modernity flourished. Instead, it now stares at us almost daily from the front pages of newspapers and television broadcasts. Although it is usually stories about the Christian Right or conservative Islam that grab headlines, there are many religious activists of other political persuasions that are working quietly for social justice. This book examines one segment of this group - those working for equitable treatment for immigrants in the United States. Bringing together thirteen essays by social scientists and one theologian, this book analyzes the different ways in which organized religion provides immigrants with an arena for mobilization, civic participation, and solidarity. Contributors explore topics including how non-Western religious groups such as the Vietnamese Caodai are striving for community recognition and addressing problems such as racism, economic issues, and the politics of diaspora; how interfaith groups organize religious people into immigrant civil rights activists at the U.S.; - Mexican border; and how large Catholic groups advocate governmental legislation and policies on behalf of refugees. In an era marked by xenophobia and a new sense of nationalism that equates foreigners with terrorists, non-governmental advocates like those described here are especially crucial in fighting for the well-being of newcomers to this country. This book provides a compelling new look at this new social function of contemporary religion.

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