By: Randy Lippert (Editor), Sean Rehaag (Editor)

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Sanctuary Practices in Perspective examines the diverse, complex, and mutating practice of providing sanctuary to asylum-seekers. The ancient tradition of church sanctuary underwent a revival in the late 1970s. Christian churches began providing physical protection to migrants living without legal status and who were facing imminent deportation in church buildings and communities: first in the United Kingdom and then in the United States, Canada, and several other European countries. These practices arose amidst a dramatic increase in the number of asylum-seekers arriving in the West, and a corresponding escalation in national and international efforts to discourage and control their arrival through myriad threats of deportation and other means. This collection of papers by prominent US, European, and Canadian scholars is the first to place contemporary sanctuary practices in international, theoretical, and historical perspective. Moving beyond isolated case studies of sanctuary activities and movements, it reveals sanctuary as a far more complex, regional, theoretically-rich, and institutionally adaptable set of practices.

Foreword
Introduction: Sanctuary across Countries, Institutions, and Disciplines
Sanctuary Perspectives: historical, theological, legal, theoretical
Sanctuary for Crime in the Early Common Law
I took up the case of the stranger': Arguments from Faith, History and Law
The Potential of Sanctuary: Acts of Sanctuary Through the Lens of Camp
Sanctuary sans frontires: Social movements and solidarity in post-war Northern France
Sanctuary Movements and Practices in the United States: Old and New
Legacies and Origins of the 1980s US-Central American Sanctuary Movement
The Voice of the Voiceless: Religious Rhetoric, Undocumented Immigrants and the New Sanctuary Movement in the United States
I didn't know if this was sanctuary': Strategic adaptation in the U.S. New Sanctuary Movement
Sanctuary Movements and Practices in Europe and Canada: International Comparative and Case Studies: Holy territories and hospitality: Nordic exceptionality and national differences of sanctuary incidents
The Rise and Features of Church Asylum in Germany: âÇ I will take refuge in the shadow of thy wings until the storms are past'
Ethnography of Relationships among Church Sanctuary Actors in Germany
The Emergence of the Ontario Sanctuary Coalition: From Humanitarian and Compassionate Review to Civil Initiative
Religious sanctuary in France and Canada
Emergent Realms: Cities of Sanctuary and Military Sanctuaries, Everyday Enactments of Sanctuary: The UK City of Sanctuary Movement
The Birth of a Sanctuary-City: A History of Governmental Sanctuary in San Francisco
The City as a Sanctuary in the United States
Seeking sanctuary in a border city: Sanctuary movement(s) across the Canada-US border
Framing Militant Sanctuary Practices in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001-2011
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ISBN: 9780415673464
ISBN-10: 0415673461
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 288
Published: 1st October 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 1.6
Weight (kg): 0.582