In the Hands of God : : How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States / / Johanna Bard Richlin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Richlin, Johanna Bard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2022
• שפה: English
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 b/w illus. 8 tables. 2 maps.

How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotionWhy 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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Pilgrims of the Potomac migrant faith in the shadows
• 1 Stories of Exceptionalism: Brazilians as a special case in the study of migration and religion
• 2 Stuck and Alone: the affective imprint of migrant distress
• 3 Church as Hospital and God as Consoler: the affective therapeutics of migrant evangelical churches
• 4 Hopeful Migrants, Confident Christians: Spiritual disciplines and evangelical efficacy
• 5 Affective Therapeutics in Comparative Perspective: catholic and spiritist migrant experience
• 6 The Evangelization of God among Migrants: intimate faith and embodied experience across denominations
• Conclusion: When Affective Therapeutics Fail: migrant faith and resilience in uncertain times
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• A Note on the Type