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Leah Saret, Fire in the Canyon: Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream (New York: New York University Press, 2013), xi + 239 pp. $ 25.00 paperback. Migration is a matter of life and death. Although the traditional theories of migration attribute its cause to social factors, Leah Saret, a teacher of religion at Arizona State University, has carefully argued that religion plays a role in the migration experience. In her important study on Mexican migration to the United States of American, Fire in the Canyon , she examines the relationship between religion, migration and the dream of a better life. For Saret, religion is not necessarily the cause for migration but a source for dealing with it. After providing a very useful over-view of her study, she discusses her work in three sections. Commencing with the historical context, she addresses the vital issue of the origin and development of Pentecostal religion in Central Mexico and how it shaped the practitioners’ world-view. More specifically, she examines social and religious changes through the optic of Pentecostalism. Saret offers an ecumenical perspective of the relationship between religion and migration. Showing both the Protestant and catholic theological understandings of this development, she
Pneuma – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2015
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