RT Article
T1 The New Politics of Religious Freedom: Humanitarian Aid and Sanctuary as Religious Mandates
JF Journal of religion & society. Supplement
VO 23
SP 81
OP 100
A1 Alexander, Laura E.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1799391108
AB Interreligious organizations that provide aid to immigrants are changing the way scholars and the public understand religious freedom in the United States. Members of these organizations draw on laws and ideals of free exercise of religion to challenge policies that limit humanitarian aid to immigrants. At the same time, they create networks across religious difference. In so doing, these groups enter a global debate over the value of borders and boundaries, making a religiously grounded case for building bonds of fellowship across both national borders and the boundary lines that separate people based on identity. The work of these groups provides a window both into legal debates over religious freedom, and postcolonial challenges to modern-era categories of difference.