Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States

by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

An urgent exploration of borders as sacred objects in American culture.

Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, "Heaven has a wall," activists shout back, "Jesus was a refugee." For Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, the standoff makes explicit a longstanding truth: borders are religious as well as political objects.

In this book, Hurd argues that Americans share a bipartisan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226841189
• ISBN13: 9780226841182
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.