{"product_id":"in-the-hands-of-god-how-evangelical-belonging-transforms-migrant-experience-in-the-united-states-9780691194974","title":"In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eEvangelical churches in the US convert migrant distress into positive religious devotion by offering affective therapeutics to heal psychological pain. Johanna Bard Richlin's book \"In the Hands of God\" explores how these churches articulate, manage, and reinterpret migrant distress, enabling migrants to feel better and improve their lives. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 24 May 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Hands of God: How Evangelical Churches in the United States Convert Migrant Distress into Positive Religious Devotion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy do migrants become more deeply evangelical in the United States, and how does this religious identity alter their self-understanding? In the Hands of God examines this question through a unique lens, foregrounding the ways that churches transform what migrants feel. Drawing from her extensive fieldwork among Brazilian migrants in the Washington, DC, area, Johanna Bard Richlin shows that affective experience is key to comprehending migrants' turn toward intense religiosity and their resulting evangelical commitment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe conditions of migrant life—family separation, geographic isolation, legal precariousness, workplace vulnerability, and deep uncertainty about the future—shape specific affective maladies, including loneliness, despair, and feeling stuck. These feelings in turn trigger novel religious yearnings. Evangelical churches deliberately and deftly articulate, manage, and reinterpret migrant distress through affective therapeutics, the strategic \"healing\" of migrants' psychological pain. Richlin offers insights into the affective dimensions of migration, the strategies pursued by evangelical churches to attract migrants, and the ways in which evangelical belonging enables migrants to feel better, emboldening them to improve their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking at the ways evangelical churches help migrants navigate negative emotions, In the Hands of God sheds light on the versatility and durability of evangelical Christianity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe conditions of migrant life—family separation, geographic isolation, legal precariousness, workplace vulnerability, and deep uncertainty about the future—shape specific affective maladies, including loneliness, despair, and feeling stuck. These feelings in turn trigger novel religious yearnings. Evangelical churches deliberately and deftly articulate, manage, and reinterpret migrant distress through affective therapeutics, the strategic \"healing\" of migrants' psychological pain. Richlin offers insights into the affective dimensions of migration, the strategies pursued by evangelical churches to attract migrants, and the ways in which evangelical belonging enables migrants to feel better, emboldening them to improve their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking at the ways evangelical churches help migrants navigate negative emotions, In the Hands of God sheds light on the versatility and durability of evangelical Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 235 x 156 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780691194974\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johanna Bard Richlin","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44101564137722,"sku":"9780691194974","price":66.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1656074759874_book.jpg?v=1656163710","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/in-the-hands-of-god-how-evangelical-belonging-transforms-migrant-experience-in-the-united-states-9780691194974","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}