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Sanctuary: On the Border Between Church and State

Sanctuary: On the Border Between Church and State

Axis Mundi Media + IRMCE
Released: 2024-09-26
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Released: 2024-09-26
© All rights reserved.
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Episode 1: Sanctuary in America

Episode 1: Sanctuary in America

What if we told you that one of the biggest movements to protect migrants in the history of the United States was led by people of faith? What if there was a movement that has been cultivated within religious spaces, dedicated to a radical hospitality -
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What if we told you that one of the biggest movements to protect migrants in the history of the United States was led by people of faith? What if there was a movement that has been cultivated within religious spaces, dedicated to a radical hospitality - to live out the Gospel by welcoming the stranger? 
In this first episode, Dr. Lloyd Barba and Dr. Sergio M. González, historians of Latino migration and religion, introduce this movement - one in which churches and synagogues transformed the way Americans understand the relationship between faith and politics. They explain how organizers deployed “usable sacred histories” in their development of the sanctuary movement, drawing upon scriptures and a centuries-old tradition to create and justify their protests and mobilizations. They also provide important context for understanding the violent Central American civil wars that created hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and led congregations to summon up the ancient idea of sanctuary in the 1980s.  
Transcripts and Course Packs for Educators: https://linktr.ee/irmceorg
Additional Resources:
Benedictine Monks of Weston Priory - Sanctuary PageRefugee Act 1980Amherst College Sanctuary Website
Creators
Dr. Lloyd Daniel Barba is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Core Faculty in Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of the award-winning book Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California (Oxford University Press) and editor of Latin American and US Latino Religions in North America (Bloomsbury). His current research on the Sanctuary Movement includes A Refuge of Resistance: A History of the US Sanctuary Movement (under contract with Oxford University Press) and a volume edited with co-host Sergio González, Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the Sanctuary Movement (under contract with New York University Press).
Dr. Sergio M. González is Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University. He is the author of Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois Press) and Mexicans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press) and the co-editor of Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 (New York University Press) with Felipe Hinojosa and Maggie Elmore. He is a co-founder and former organizer for the Dane Sanctuary Coalition and is currently completing a co-edited volume with co-host Lloyd Barba, Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the US Sanctuary Movement (under contract with New York University Press).
Funding for this series has been generously provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support was provided by the American Academy of Religion and Amherst College.
Executive Producer: Dr. Bradley Onishi (@bradleyonishi) 
Audio Engineer: Scott Okamoto (@rsokamoto)
Production Assistance: Kari Onishi
Episode ID: 1000670755275
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Release Date: 26/09/2024, 13:01:00

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A limited podcast series about the politics of immigration, faith as radical hospitality, and the borders between church and state.
In the spring of 1982, six faith communities in Arizona and California declared themselves places of safe harbor for hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans and Guatemalans that had been denied legal proceedings for political asylum in the U.S. Alleging that immigration officials had intentionally miscategorized Central Americans as ‘economic migrants’ in order to accelerate their deportation, humanitarian organizations, legal advocates, and religious bodies sought alternatives for aid within their faiths’ scriptural teachings and the juridical parameters offered by international and national human rights and refugee law. Known as the Sanctuary Movement, this decade-long interfaith mobilization spurred congressional action in support of Central American asylees by the 1990s and served as the model for a renewed movement for sanctuary in support of undocumented Americans in the twenty-first century.
Every episode in the series draws upon extensive archival data from across the country in order to offer new interpretations of the Sanctuary Movement and introduce public audiences to the primary voices and sources within the faith communities and grassroots organizations at its core. To date, there is no resource that provides a reliable and relevant examination of the movement from the 1980s to the present. “Sanctuary: On the Border Between Church and State” proposes to do exactly this and thus chart new directions for one of the nation’s most confrontational religious movements.
Produced by the Institute for Religion, Media, and Civic Engagement. Generous support provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support was given by the American Academy of Religion and Amherst College.
Creators: Dr. Lloyd Barba (Faculty, Amherst College) and Dr. Sergio Gonzalez (Faculty, Marquette University)
Executive Producer: Dr. Bradley Onishi
Sound Engineer and Score: Scott Okamoto
Production Assistance: Kari Onishi
Distributed by Axis Mundi Media

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