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In the Hands of God How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States | 2.09 MB
Title: In the Hands of God
Author: Johanna Bard Richlin
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Marriage & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Evangelism, Anthropology
Language: English | 345 Pages | ISBN: 069119498X
Description:
How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotion
Why do migrants become more deeply evangelical in the United States and how does this religious identity alter their self-understanding? In the Hands of God examines this question through a unique lens, foregrounding the ways that churches transform what migrants feel. Drawing from her extensive fieldwork among Brazilian migrants in the Washington, DC, area, Johanna Bard Richlin shows that affective experience is key to comprehending migrants' turn toward intense religiosity, and their resulting evangelical commitment.
The conditions of migrant life-family separation, geographic isolation, legal precariousness, workplace vulnerability, and deep uncertainty about the future-shape specific affective maladies, including loneliness, despair, and feeling stuck. These feelings in turn trigger novel religious yearnings. Evangelical churches...
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