Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration. This item is unavailable.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.

Efraín Agosto is Professor of New Testament Studies at New York Theological Seminary. Previously, he served on the faculty of Hartford Seminary, and directed the Programa de Ministerios Hispanos there. He is the author of Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul (2005) and Corintios, a Spanish-language commentary of 1-2 Corinthians (2008).

 Jacqueline M. Hidalgo is Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies and Religion at Williams College. The author of Revelation in Aztlán: Scriptures, Utopias, and the Chicano Movement (2016), her research examines the power of scriptural imaginaries, narratives, and material cultures in shaping relations of race and gender in the American West.