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Publication Date: 2012-07-01
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Jaramillo Echavarría, R. A. (2012). The religious concept of refugee: the “sanctuary”, tradition and faith. Revista De Antropología Y Sociología : Virajes, 14(2), 79–97. Retrieved from https://revistasojs.ucaldas.edu.co/index.php/virajes/article/view/910
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In North America in the 1980s, emerged the “sanctuary” movement, emerged “sanctuary”, as a means to provide support, promotion and protection of to refugees and other vulnerable migrants. In recent years, these movements, have grown rapidly across Europe, animated largely by activists of faith, who invokeing, a series of basic moral principles, related to with religious traditions.“Sanctuary” Contemporary advocates of “sanctuary” are associated with ancient religious traditions ancient religious, based on the protection and founded justified on empathy and solidarity, which are in fact integral a vital part to all forms of social organization. This article examines the history of the religious concept of refugee in ancient history and modern history as well as the implications for contemporary understanding of protection, sanctuary and asylum.
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BROWN, F. E. (1961). Roman architecture. New York: G. Braziller.
BROWN, W. (2010). Walled states, waning sovereignty. New York: Zone Books.
BURNSIDE, J. P. (2010). “Exodus and Asylum: Uncovering the relationship between biblical law and narrative”. In: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 34(3): 243-266. SAGE publications.
CLAASEN, J. M. (1999). Displaced persons: The literature of exile from Cicero to Boethius. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
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CUNNINGHAM, H. (1995). God and Caesar at the Rio Grande. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
DE POLIGNAC, F. (1994). Placing the gods: Sanctuaries and sacred space in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Clarendon.
ELIADE, E. (1987). The Sacred and the Profane: The nature of religion. Orlando: Harcourt.
GORMAN, R. (1993). “Persecution and exile in the Patristic Period: Athanasian and Augustinian perspectives”. In: Journal of Refugee Studies, 6(1): 40-45. Oxford Journals.
HALLEBEEK, J. (2003). Church Asylum in late antiquity: Concession by the Emperor or competence of the Church? Oxford: Clarendon.
KIRBY, R. M. (1982). Sanctuary-Beverley, a town of refuge. Beverley: Highgate Publications.
LINCOLN, B. (1992). Discourse and the construction of society: Comparative studies of myth, ritual, and classification. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
MARFLEET, P. (2006). Refugees in a Global Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
PEDLEY, J. (2005). Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the ancient Greek World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
RABBEN, L. (2011). Give refuge to the stranger. California: Left Coast Press.
ROSS, A. (1992). Pagan Celtic Britain. London: Constable.
RYAN, W. C. (1987). “The historical case for the right of sanctuary”. In: Journal of Church and State, 29: 209-232. Oxford Journals.
SMITH, C. (1991). The emergence of Liberation Theology: Radical religion and social movement theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
SOGUK, N. (1999). States and strangers: Refugees and displacements of statecraft. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
SWAN, J. (1991). The power of place: Sacred ground in natural and human environments. Wheaton: Quest.
TRENHOLME, N. M. (1903). The right of sanctuary: A study in institutional history. South Carolina: BiblioBazaar.
WICKHAM, C. (2009). The inheritance of Rome: A history of Europe from 400 to 1000. London: Allen Lane.
ZOLBERG, A., SUHRKE, A. & AGUAYO, S. (1989). Escape from violence: Conflict and the refugee crisis in the developing world. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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