Border of Death, Valley of Life: An Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spirit
This is a powerful, first-hand account of a religious ministry that reaches out to console, heal, and build the lives of poor and desperate immigrants who come to the United States in search of a better life. Daniel G. Groody talked with immigration officials, 'coyote' smugglers, and immigrants in detention centers and those working in the fields. The picture that emerges starkly contrasts with the negative stereotypes about Mexican immigrants: Groody discovered insights into God, family,...
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This is a powerful, first-hand account of a religious ministry that reaches out to console, heal, and build the lives of poor and desperate immigrants who come to the United States in search of a better life. Booknews This volume on Mexican immigrant spirituality is drawn from the author's own experiences working with Mexican immigrants as well as his study of the Valley Missionary program in Coachella, California. Groody (theology, U. of Notre Dame) first describes the context of poverty and migration of the immigrants, then examines the spiritual changes they experience, examining conversion experiences, and discussing at length the Mexican concept of
ForewordIntroduction1Ch. 1Corazon Destrozado - The Crushed Heart: The Dynamics of Mexican Emigration and Immigration13A Hunger for Freedom, A Wall of Separation13Breaking from Home in Mexico15Crossing the U.S.-Mexican Border19Entering a Foreign Land26The Immigrant Journey as a Way of the Cross32Ch. 2Corazon Rehabilitado - The Rehabilitated Heart: The Dynamics of Healing and Empowerment41A Spiritual Home in a Foreign Land41A Ritual Process of Spiritual Transformation48A Contextual Theology of Encounter61A New World and a New Way of Life: A Sacramental and Incarnational Spirituality69Ch. 3Corazon Animado - The Animated Heart: The Dynamics of Conversion and Transformation79A Foundation for Conversion79Affective Conversion through the Experience of the Beautiful82Social Conversion through the Experience of Love86Intellectual Conversion through the Experience of the Truth92Personal Moral Conversion through the Experience of the Good97Religious Conversion through the Experience of Friendship with God103From Death to Life: The Paschal Mystery in Coachella108Ch. 4Corazon Florida - The Flowering of the Heart: The Dynamics of Inculturation and Mission115The Mesoamerican Story and the Guadalupe Story115The Religious Ethos of Mesoamerica: Two Core Mesoamerican Symbols116Guadalupe: Rooting Christianity in Mesoamerican Soil118The Encounter Retreat in Coachella: The Guadalupe Story and the Gospel Story124Tepyac and the Shrine: A New Center, A New Home130Juan Diego as Prototype of Converting Mexican-Immigrant Christian133Afterword137AppThe Nican Mopohua - The Guadalupe Story141Bibliography157Index179About the Author187
\ The Journal of ReligionGroody is to be commended for lifting up the evangelizing witness of a people that have all too often been designated as needing only to be evangelized.\ \ \ \ \ AmericaIt is a remarkable study that requires follow-up by other scholars of spirituality, practical theology, community development and social ethics.\ — Allan Figueroa\ \ \ BooknewsThis volume on Mexican immigrant spirituality is drawn from the author's own experiences working with Mexican immigrants as well as his study of the Valley Missionary program in Coachella, California. Groody (theology, U. of Notre Dame) first describes the context of poverty and migration of the immigrants, then examines the spiritual changes they experience, examining conversion experiences, and discussing at length the Mexican concept of
