In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States Richlin Johanna Bard
In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States Richlin Johanna Bard How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into…
Specifikacia In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States Richlin Johanna Bard
In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States Richlin Johanna Bard
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? Drawing from her extensive fieldwork among Brazilian migrants in the Washington D.C. In the Hands of God examines this question through a unique lens, foregrounding the ways that churches transform what migrants feel.
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.