ABSTRACT
This chapter explores with a vignette that reflects on the understanding of God and power that is embraced by Christian migrants in two small-scale cities, one in Germany and one in the United States. Religion provides migrants with a simultaneously local and transnational mode of incorporation that may configure them not as ethnics but as citizens of both their locality of settlement and of the world. The churches in the network of churches were predominantly white with a scattering of migrants from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Only one was primarily composed of migrants, and this church stressed its Christian identity rather than the Hispanic background of its congregants. In this sense adopting a universalistic Christian fundamentalism can be seen as an act of resistance against a regime of nation-states that increasing seeks to exclude those who are classified as foreigners.
