Isaac Villegas,

Isaac Villegas is a Ph.D. student in religion. His research focuses on communities in the U.S./Mexico borderlands that have developed religious rituals and liturgies to honor the lives of people who have died while crossing through the desert. More broadly, he is interested in the connection between the memorialization of the dead and the formation of political imaginations. (He holds an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School and a B.A. in Religious Studies from Westmont College.)

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Office Location:	101 New Divinity School, Durham, NC 27708
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Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Villegas, I, Migrant God: A Christian Vision for Immigrant Justice (March, 2025), Eerdmans, ISBN 978-0802884435
2. Villegas, I, Son of Man… Vindicated by Her Deeds, Worship, vol. 97 (April, 2023)  [abs]
3. Villegas, I, Vigils in the Borderlands, in Worship and Power: Liturgical Authority in Free Church Traditions, edited by Johnson, SK; Wymer, A (March, 2023), pp. 61-72, Cascade Books, ISBN 9781666732931
4. Villegas, I, European Mennonites and the Holocaust, Anabaptist Witness, vol. 9 no. 1 (April, 2022), pp. 111-120
5. Villegas, IS, The Ecclesial Ethics of John Howard Yoder’s Abuse, Modern Theology, vol. 37 no. 1 (January, 2021), pp. 191-214, Wiley [doi]  [abs]