Evangelicals and Immigration Fault Lines Among the Faithful /

• Main Authors: Melkonian-Hoover, Ruth M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kellstedt, Lyman A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
• Subjects: Religion and politics.; United States-Politics and government.; Politics and Religion.; US Politics.

The topic of immigration is at the center of contemporary politics and, from a scholarly perspective, existing studies have documented that attitudes towards immigration have brought about changes in both partisanship and voting behavior. However, many scholars have missed or misconstrued the role o...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Religion and the Politics of Immigration Reform
• 2. U.S. Immigration History, Laws, and Protestant Christian Responses
• 3. Immigration in the 2000s: Immigration Reform, Executive Orders, and Evangelical Leadership
• 4. Immigration Attitudes among American Religious Groups
• 5. The Evangelical Kaleidoscope: Racial/Ethnic Similarity and Difference
• 6. Religion Does Matter: Alternative Measures and Contextual Effects
• 7. Conclusion: Evangelical Christianity and Immigration Reform: What Comes Next?. .