AHA Session 171
American Catholic Historical Association 22
American Catholic Historical Association 22
Saturday, January 9, 2027: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Napoleon Ballroom B2 (Sheraton New Orleans, 3rd Floor)
Chair:
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Kalamazoo College
Papers:
Session Abstract
Immigrants introduce new politics, new racial dynamics, and new devotions along their routes of travel. All of these inheritances are also religious acts. This panel brings together the sacred and the political (on the individual, the community, and the national scale) in its consideration of three distinct cases: Central American leaders of the sanctuary movement (the Reagan-era U.S. 1980s); an Irish parish transformed by convergent streams of Puerto Rican and Dominican immigrants (Jamaica Plain, MA, 1970s); and the generation of Black Protestant autonomy among Black American emigrants in the unified island of Haiti (19th century). Panelists explore how migrants made Christianity beliefs and Christian political expressions anew and how Christian beliefs enveloped migrant journeys.
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