Ellrod, Bryan. “The Remembrance of Dismembered Bodies: The Promise and Challenge of Mourning in the Southwestern Borderlands.” Body and Religion 5, no. 2 (2021): 204-21. doi:10.1558/bar.22145.
Cover illustration: Airport Mesa. Used with permission of the photographer, Travis William Clark.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ellrod, Bryan M., editor.
Title: A political theology for the US-Mexico borderlands / edited by Bryan M. Ellrod.
Description: Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2025] | Series: Political and public theologies, 2666-9218 ; volume 6 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Since 1994, over 4,000 human remains have been recovered from the Sonoran Desert. Victims of a border enforcement strategy that weaponizes the landscape against migrants, the ever-growing ledger of the dead counts the human cost at which the present political paradigm is secured. Through a series of readings of biblical texts, informed by philosophical, theological, and legal theory, this book facilitates a reckoning between the self-determining polity and the excluded outsider’s ethical demand. Finding in their demand the motivation for novel forms of legal interpretation and political agency, Ellrod sketches a hopeful, life-affirming alternative to Realist Political Theologies of Migration”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024057527 (print) | LCCN 2024057528 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004721517 (paperback) | ISBN 9789004721524 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy. | United States--Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects. | Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects | Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Emigration and immigration--Moral and ethical aspects. | Christian ethics--United States. | Political theology--United States. | Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions
Classification: LCC JV6483 .P655 2025 (print) | LCC JV6483 (ebook) | DDC 320.55/30973--dc23/eng/20250208
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024057527
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024057528
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ISSN 2666-9218
ISBN 978-90-04-72151-7 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-90-04-72152-4 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004721524
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