US migration policies are not only intentionally deadly but also are designed to produce ambiguous loss across migrant sending communities.…
No olvidados: Unclaimable bodies of the US-Mexico border
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Dust to dust: A religion of return migration
Below I recount [a] story of death and repatriation in times of Covid-19, not in the voyeuristic manner of mainstream…
Death interrupted: Mourning across borders in the wake of Covid-19
Acknowledging the vast diversity of migratory trajectories around the world, I see important commonalities in the experience of what I…
Borderlands of the sacred
Americans have long sacralized ordinary objects through memory work that reveals the power of the state, that transforms otherwise familiar,…
Bordering the Kingdom
If the Kingdom of God has no borders, then this can be true only for those for whom borders do…
Crossing and conversion: Introduction
This forum draws on a range of historical and contemporary case studies to show that conversions rarely converge on the…
“Drawing the line” and freedom of movement
Perhaps we have been so drawn to drawing and contesting lines between “religion” and the “secular” because this now-classic fight…