Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders
Borders are places of collision. People and politics, compassion and cruelty, law and lawlessness, hope and despair, idealism and ideology, life and death—all collide at the border. But these collisions have human faces. North and south, rich and poor, nuns and nones, desperation and courage—a spirit draws all these poles together and a spirituality animates their encounter. 

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.

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Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders
Borders are places of collision. People and politics, compassion and cruelty, law and lawlessness, hope and despair, idealism and ideology, life and death—all collide at the border. But these collisions have human faces. North and south, rich and poor, nuns and nones, desperation and courage—a spirit draws all these poles together and a spirituality animates their encounter. 

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.

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Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders

Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders

by Helen T. Boursier
Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders
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Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders

Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders

by Helen T. Boursier

Overview

Borders are places of collision. People and politics, compassion and cruelty, law and lawlessness, hope and despair, idealism and ideology, life and death—all collide at the border. But these collisions have human faces. North and south, rich and poor, nuns and nones, desperation and courage—a spirit draws all these poles together and a spirituality animates their encounter. 

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506489575
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 05/21/2024
Pages: 254
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Helen T. Boursier is a practical theologian, activist, author, artist, and ordained Presbyterian minister who has been a volunteer chaplain with displaced migrants since 2014. She is the author of several books, including, Desperately Seeking Asylum: Testimonies of Trauma, Courage, and Love (2019).

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