Description: "Investigates whether and how deliberative dialogues about immigration in Christian congregations can perform a cosmopolitan role"--
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"This book examines the question of how religion might play a cosmopolitan role in society, leading organizations, groups, and individuals to act as if all human beings belong to a global community in relation to which they have rights and duties.... Filomeno successfully tests this thesis through community-based research via conversations with mixed racial groups about the highly contested issue of immigration in order to promote collaboration between immigrants and US-born citizens.... The author concludes that churches can play a significant role in collaboratively addressing issues of immigration and the experiences of immigrants. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--Choice