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The Strangers in our Midst: American Evangelicals and Immigration From the Cold war to the Twenty-First Century
Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen
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Oxford University Press, USA
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The Strangers in our Midst: American Evangelicals and Immigration From the Cold war to the Twenty-First Century - Stockhausen, Ulrike Elisabeth
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Synopsis "The Strangers in our Midst: American Evangelicals and Immigration From the Cold war to the Twenty-First Century"
Evangelical Christians in the United States today are known for their hard-line, restrictive approach to immigration and refugees. This book shows that this has not always been the case and is, in fact, a relatively new position. The history of evangelical involvement with refugees andimmigrants has been overlooked in the current debate. Since the early 1960s, evangelical Christians have been integral players in US immigration and refugee policy. Motivated by biblical teachings to �welcome the stranger,� they have helped tens of thousands of newcomers by acting as refugeesponsors or providing legalization assistance to undocumented immigrants. Until the 1990s, many evangelicals did not distinguish between documented and undocumented newcomers DS all were to be loved and welcomed. In the last decade of the twentieth century, however, a growing anti-immigrant consensusin American society grew alongside evangelicals' political alignment with the Republican Party, leading to a rethinking of their theology. Following the GOP's lead, evangelicals increasingly emphasized the need to obey American law, which many argued undocumented immigrants failed to do. Today, the evangelical movement is more divided than ever about immigration policy. While conservative evangelicals are often immigrationhard-liners, many progressive and Latinx evangelicals hope to convince their fellow evangelicals to take a more welcoming approach. The Strangers in Our Midst argues that the key to understanding evangelicals' divided approaches to immigration is to look at both their theology and their politics.Both of which have shaped how�and especially to whom�they extend their biblical values of hospitality.
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