TY - BOOK ID - 77896904 TI - Fire in the Canyon : Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream PY - 2013 SN - 0814724671 9780814724675 9780814759370 0814759378 9781583673157 1583673156 1479839787 9781479839780 158367313X PB - New York, NY : New York University Press, DB - UniCat KW - El Alberto (Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration. KW - El Alberto (Mexico) -- Religious life and customs. KW - Pentecostalism -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- El Alberto. KW - Social networks -- Mexico --El Alberto. KW - Pentecostalism KW - Social networks KW - Political Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Immigration & Emigration KW - Networking, Social KW - Networks, Social KW - Social networking KW - Social support systems KW - Support systems, Social KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Cliques (Sociology) KW - Microblogs KW - Charismatic Movement KW - Charismatic Renewal Movement KW - Latter Rain movement KW - Neo-Pentecostalism KW - Pentecostal movement KW - Christianity KW - Gifts, Spiritual KW - Glossolalia KW - Social aspects KW - El Alberto (Mexico) KW - Alberto, El (Mexico) KW - Alberto (Hidalgo, Mexico) KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Religious aspects KW - Pentecostal churches. KW - Religious life and customs. KW - Capitalism. KW - Stagnation (Economics) KW - Economic development. KW - Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - Economic stagnation KW - Stationary state (Economics) KW - Steady-state economics KW - Market economy KW - Profit KW - Capital KW - Capitalism KW - Economic development KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896904 AB - The canyon in central Mexico was ablaze with torches as hundreds of people filed in. So palpable was their shared shock and grief, they later said, that neither pastor nor priest was needed. The event was a memorial service for one of their own who had died during an attempted border passage. Months later a survivor emerged from a coma to tell his story. The accident had provoked a near-death encounter with God that prompted his conversion to Pentecostalism. Today, over half of the local residents of El Alberto, a town in central Mexico, are Pentecostal. Submitting themselves to the authority of a God for whom there are no borders, these Pentecostals today both embrace migration as their right while also praying that their “Mexican Dream”—the dream of a Mexican future with ample employment for all—will one day become a reality. Fire in the Canyon provides one of the first in-depth looks at the dynamic relationship between religion, migration, and ethnicity across the U.S.-Mexican border. Faced with the choice between life-threatening danger at the border and life-sapping poverty in Mexico, residents of El Alberto are drawing on both their religion and their indigenous heritage to demand not only the right to migrate, but also the right to stay home. If we wish to understand people's migration decisions, Sarat argues, we must take religion seriously. It is through religion that people formulate their ideas about life, death, and the limits of government authority. ER -