One Family under God: Immigration Politics and Progressive Religion in America
As U.S.- and Soviet-sponsored civil wars raged in Central America during the 1980s, the region produced tens of thousands of refugees, many of whom made their way to the United States. The anti-Communist Reagan administration, however, too often simply deported Salvadoran and Guatemalan migrants bac...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2014
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 489-490 |
| Review of: | One family under God (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2013) (Fetzer, Joel S.)
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| Summary: | As U.S.- and Soviet-sponsored civil wars raged in Central America during the 1980s, the region produced tens of thousands of refugees, many of whom made their way to the United States. The anti-Communist Reagan administration, however, too often simply deported Salvadoran and Guatemalan migrants back to their violence-ridden home countries. Reacting to what they saw as a moral outrage, American religious groups of the era formed the original Sanctuary Movement, and they hid Central American migrants in their churches and synagogues until these refugees could be transported to safer locales such as Canada. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sru046 |