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- Title
Strangers in Our Midst: American Evangelicals and Immigration from the Cold War to the Twenty-First Century. By Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen.
- Authors
Schäfer, Axel R
- Abstract
Stockhausen's main interest is in exploring how and why evangelical Christians, whose attitude toward immigrants after World War II was informed by a "theology of hospitality", had by the 1990s largely embraced anti-immigrant sentiments. Nonetheless, Stockhausen views these primarily as elite-driven campaigns that did not resonate with the grassroots, as continued evangelical support for bans on Muslim immigrants indicated. Noting that evangelicals have rarely been included in studies of immigration activism, she offers a nuanced analysis of a movement that is increasingly divided between white and non-white, mainstream and progressive, rural and urban, and older and younger evangelicals.
- Subjects
TWENTY-first century; COLD War, 1945-1991; EMIGRATION &; immigration; STRANGERS; SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; ACTIVISM
- Publication
Journal of Church & State, 2022, Vol 64, Issue 4, p764
- ISSN
0021-969X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jcs/csac062