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America
Author_Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Beliefs
Bipartisan
Boundary
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Citizenship
Culture
Devotion
Doctrine
Domestic
Enforcement
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Eschatology
Foreign policy
Geopolitics
Globalization
Heresy
Heterodoxy
Identity
Ideology
Immigration
International
Liturgy
Militarization
Myth
National security
Nationalism
Orthodoxy
Patriotism
Pilgrimage
Politics
Practices
Profanation
Public life
Reverence
Ritual
Sacralization
Sacred
Sanctuary
Sovereignty
Symbolism
Xenophobia
Product details
- ISBN 9780226841205
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jun 2025
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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An urgent exploration of borders as sacred objects in American culture.
Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activists shout back, “Jesus was a refugee.” For Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, the standoff makes explicit a longstanding truth: borders are religious as well as political objects.
In this book, Hurd argues that Americans share a bipartisan border religion, complete with an array of beliefs and practices, including a reverence for national security, a liturgy for immigration, and an eschatological foreign policy. Through an analysis of the many ways the United States creates, enforces, and ignores borders at home and abroad, Hurd offers a bold new perspective on the ties that bind American religion, politics, and public life.
Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activists shout back, “Jesus was a refugee.” For Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, the standoff makes explicit a longstanding truth: borders are religious as well as political objects.
In this book, Hurd argues that Americans share a bipartisan border religion, complete with an array of beliefs and practices, including a reverence for national security, a liturgy for immigration, and an eschatological foreign policy. Through an analysis of the many ways the United States creates, enforces, and ignores borders at home and abroad, Hurd offers a bold new perspective on the ties that bind American religion, politics, and public life.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is professor of political science and religious studies at Northwestern University. Her books include Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion and Politics of Religious Freedom, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.
