1st Edition
Resacralizing the Other at the US-Mexico Border A Borderland Hermeneutic
By Gregory L. Cuéllar
Copyright 2020
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on the themes of border violence; racial criminalization; competing hermeneutics of the sacred; and State-sponsored modes of desacralizing black and brown-bodied people, all in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands. It provides a much-needed substantive response to the State’s use of sacrilization to justify its acts of violence and offers new ways of theologizing the... Read more
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Trespassing on the Archive as the Border-Crossed Other
3 The Sacralizing Performance of a Counter Archive
4 The Desacralizing Power of Immigrant Detention
5 Caring for the Sacred Other
6 Afterword
Index
Biography
Gregory L. Cuéllar is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, USA. He is the author of Voices of Marginality (2008) and Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century: Archival Criticism (2019).
