Author Meets Critics: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd's Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States

Join us for a discussion of Elizabeth Shakman Hurd’s new book Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States (University of Chicago Press, 2025). This timely work argues that borders are religious as well as political objects and that Americans share a “bipartisan border religion,” which includes reverence for national security, a liturgy for immigration, and an eschatological foreign policy. In this panel, scholars in religious studies, sociology, and anthropology will discuss the work and its implications, with a response from Prof. Hurd.