One Family Under God
Immigration Politics and Progressive Religion in America
Grace Yukich
Reviews and Awards
"This book is an obvious choice for graduate-level courses in social movements, culture, religion, and organizations and would also be an excellent text for related upper-level undergraduate courses."--American Journal of Sociology
"[A] timely and highly readable book...it is hard to find much to criticize in this volume...It will likely become the standard work on the New Sanctuary Movement."--Sociology of Religion
"A timely and important contribution...an ideal text for use in undergraduate and graduate courses."--Mobilization
"Fascinating and well-documented One Family Under God is a fine book that effectively details the origins and early years of the New Sanctuary movement." --Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
"Grace Yukich points to patterns and trends as she explains tensions and controversies woven into factual narratives of anguish, intolerance, and transformation. Her inquiry should motivate any whose faith makes this daring demand: Partners with the oppressed, respect people you disagree with, and treat strangers as family, under God." --Liguorian
"The rich narrative examines the influence of religion on a multitarget social movement and provides new insights into the interplay of religion, activism, and immigration policies. Summing Up: Recommended." --CHOICE
"While the nation's politicians have been incapable of resolving the question of how to deal with eleven million undocumented immigrants, the New Sanctuary Movement has quietly been working to keep immigration officials from tearing families apart. One Family Under God chronicles this heart-moving story, showing not only how congregations became involved but also how they were transformed in the process." --Robert Wuthnow, author of America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity
"The basic Christian principles that have theologically grounded the religious system in the United States and the political rationale that has allowed for current measures taken against immigrants inform Grace Yukich's book, One Family under God: Immigration Politics and Progressive Religion in America, and make it a good read and useful addition to the literature on immigration, religion, and politics... The integration of religion and politics in accounts of movements like the NSM permits scholarly inquiry into these areas to become wider in scope and further able to address the diversity of political and social movements. Yukich captures this importance in this timely book." --Politics and Religion