TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boursier,Helen T.
TI  - Precious precarity: a spirituality of borders 
SN  - 1506489575
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Spiritual life
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Mexican-American Border Region
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Precious Precarity examines the spirituality that emerges between life and death, when vulnerable raced migrants must leave their homelands and traverse harsh environments to seek safety in an often-unwelcoming foreign land. The spirituality of displaced people mingles with that of volunteers, advocates, and environmentalists at the southwestern US-Mexico border, creating a unique and distinct spirituality in the borderlands. It's a spirituality shaped by the reality of death and the passionate quest for safety and for life. Informed by interviews, activism, scholarship, original art, and a practiced compassion, Precious Precarity takes readers beyond the headlines, policy debates, good intentions, and bad faith that too often dominate our understanding of the borderlands to reveal the ways in which human experience endures life's travails, transcends its vagaries and vanities, and persists in the face of danger and even death"--
ER  -