Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration

This book examines the conjunction between migration and biblical texts with a focus on Latinx histories and experiences. Essays reflect upon Latinxs, the Bible, and migration in different ways: some consider how the Bible is used in the midst of, or in response to, Latinx experiences and histories of migration; some use Latinx histories and experiences of migration to examine Biblical texts in both First and Second Testaments; some consider the "Bible" as a phenomenological set of texts that respond to and/or compel migration. Cultural, literary, and postcolonial theories inform the analysis, as does the exploration of how migrant groups themselves scripturalize their biblical and cultural texts.

1. Introduction: Reading the Bible and Latinx Migrations/the Bible as Text(s) of Migration. - 2. The Bible as Homing Device Among Cubans at Claremont' s Calvary Chapel. - 3. Gendering (Im)migration in the Pentateuch s Legal Codes: A Reading from a Latina Perspective. - 4. Channeling the Biblical Exile as an Art Task for Central American Refugee Children on the Texas-Mexico Border. - 5. Out of Egypt I Called My Son : Migration as a Male Activity in the New Testament Gospels. - 6. The Flight to Egypt: Toward a Protestant Mariology in Migration. - 7. Whence Migration? Babel, Pentecost, and Biblical Imagination . - 8. Islands, Borders and Migration: Reading Paul in Light of the Crisis in Puerto Rico. - 9. Border Crossing into the Promised Land: The Eschatological Migration of God s People in Revelation 2:1 3:22 . - 10. Reading (Our)Selves in Migration: A Response.