Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Agosto, Efraín (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hidalgo, Jacqueline M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Bible and Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Bible-Theology.; Ethnology-Latin America.; Biblical Studies.; Latino Culture.; Latin American Culture.

This book examines the conjunction between migration and biblical texts with a focus on Latinx histories and experiences. Essays reflect upon Latinxs, the Bible, and migration in different ways: some consider how the Bible is used in the midst of, or in response to, Latinx experiences and histories...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Reading the Bible and Latinx Migrations/the Bible as Text(s) of Migration
• 2. The Bible as Homing Device Among Cubans at Claremont's Calvary Chapel
• 3. Gendering (Im)migration in the Pentateuch's Legal Codes: A Reading from a Latina Perspective
• 4. Channeling the Biblical Exile as an Art Task for Central American Refugee Children on the Texas-Mexico Border
• 5. "Out of Egypt I Called My Son": Migration as a Male Activity in the New Testament Gospels
• 6. The Flight to Egypt: Toward a Protestant Mariology in Migration
• 7. Whence Migration? Babel, Pentecost, and Biblical Imagination
• 8. Islands, Borders and Migration: Reading Paul in Light of the Crisis in Puerto Rico
• 9. Border Crossing into the Promised Land: The Eschatological Migration of God's People in Revelation 2:1-3:22
• 10. Reading (Our)Selves in Migration: A Response.