"There's a spirit that transcends the border": Faith, ritual, and postnational protest at the US-Mexico border
"There's a spirit that transcends the border": Faith, ritual, and postnational protest at the US-Mexico border
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DOI：
10.1525/sop.2004.47.2.133
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发表时间：
2004-06-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Ortiz, BC
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作者：
Hondagneu-Sotelo, P;Gaudinez, G;Ortiz, BC
宗教正日益超越私人范围，进入公共场所，挑战公共道德和民间社会，并为之提供信息。这篇文章的重点是波萨达无国界，这是一个一年一度的政治和宗教事件，呼吁人们关注美国死亡人数的上升。墨西哥边境因美国边境执法政策的变化而引起。本文根据民族志资料和对活动参与者的现场访谈，分析了波萨达作为一种集体仪式，并探讨了它对不同参与者的意义。美国移民反边境执法政策的危机，以及墨西哥移民和在较小程度上中美洲移民带来的文化影响，为波萨达提供了条件。不同信仰间的宗教道德允许不同的群体，包括既不是墨西哥人也不是天主教徒的人，采用墨西哥和天主教的文化形式。我们把这一过程称为“宗教-民族文化扩张”，我们认为，基督教的亲属关系，团结和共同的人性的宗教话语构成的关键力量之一，动画后民族国家的挑战，民族国家边界和公民政策。
Religion is increasingly moving beyond private confines to public venues, where it challenges and informs public morality and civil society. This article focuses on the Posada Sin Fronteras, an annual political and religious-informed event that calls attention to the rising death toll at the U.S.-Mexico border caused by changes in U.S. border enforcement policies. Based on ethnographic data and on-the-spot interviews with participants at the event, this article analyzes the Posada as a collective ritual and examines the meanings it holds for its varied participants. The crisis in U.S. immigration anti border enforcement policies, and the cultural influences brought about by Mexican and, to lesser extent, Central American immigration provide the conditions for the Posada. Interfaith religious morality allows for the adoption of Mexican and Catholic cultural forms by diverse groups, including people who are of neither Mexican nor Catholic heritage. We refer to this process as "religio-ethnic cultural expansion," and we suggest that religious discourse of Christian kinship, unity, and shared humanity constitute one of the key forces animating the post-national challenge to nation-state border and citizenship policies.