God's Resistance

Brad Christerson (Author) Brad Christerson is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Biola University and co-author of The Rise of Network Christianity, Growing Up in America: The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens and Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations.Alexia Salvatierra (Author) Alexia Salvatierra is the Academic Dean of the Centro Latino and the Associate Professor of Mission and Global Transformation at Fuller Theological Seminary and co-author of Buried Seeds: Learning from the Vibrant Resiliency of Marginalized Christian Communities.Robert Chao Romero (Author) Robert Chao Romero is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 and Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity.Nancy Wang Yuen (Author) Nancy Wang Yuen is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) consultant for Peoplism and author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism.

"The combination of deep-insider knowledge and involvement with several groups across many years allows for the telling of a different story about religion and immigration than those that focus on religious opposition to immigrant support.… Goes a long way toward developing a deeper understanding of the potential that faith-based social movements possess to create positive social change, and exactly what that change could entail." - Richard Flory, Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California "Illustrates the critical roles faith-leaders and laity play in educating and mobilizing a formidable corps of spiritual and moral advocates. This tome will go a long way in unearthing hidden stories of prophetic advocacy and public solidarity. This story and many others need to be heard. A must read!" - Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero, President and Founder, National Latino Evangelical Coalition "A visionary guide for how to fight for an immigration system that sees no stranger. Brilliant, heart-led, indispensable." - Valarie Kaur, Founder of the Revolutionary Love Project "By documenting, in rich detail, the many ways that faith enters into contemporary immigrant rights struggles, God's Resistance provides not only invaluable documentation of these movements but also important insights into the ways that religion enters into these movements." (The Journal of Social Encounters)