Full Description
The painful reality faced by refugees and migrants is one of the greatest moral challenges of our time, in turn, becoming a focus of significant scholarship. This volume examines the global phenomenon of migration in its theological, historical, and socio-political dimensions and of how churches and faith communities have responded to the challenges of such mass human movement. The contributions reflect global perspectives with contributions from African, Asian, European, North American, and South American scholars and contexts. The essays are interdisciplinary, at the intersection of religion, anthropology, history, political science, gender and post-colonial studies. The volume brings together a variety of perspectives, inter-related by ecclesiological and theological concerns.
Contents
1. The Church, Migration and Global (In)Difference: They End in the City.- 2. Boaz's Hospitality Toward Ruth: Inspiring Our Hospitality Toward Latin American Temporary Farm Workers.- 3. Luke-Acts as Scripture Speaking From and To Migration.- 4. The Church, Migration and the Primacy of Motion: Beyond Hospitality.- 5. Hospitality and Disruption: The Church as Sanctuary.- 6. Decolonizing Theology and Migration in a Canadian Context - (Re)imagining Hospitality.- 7. Forced Migrations as a Theo-Political Challenge Facing Global Violence.- 8. Anthropology and Theology: Notes on Gender, Migration and Mystics.- 9. Religion, Migration and Educational Practice - Empirical, Postcolonial and Theological Perspectives.- 10. Deciphering the Genome of "Crisis" in the Syrian "Refugee Crisis": Toward a Hermeneutic Tripod.- 11. The Refugee as "Limit-Concept" in the Modern Nation-State.- 12. Churches and National Boundaries: Differences Between Borders and Limits According to Pope Francis.- 13. Pope Francis' Four Words to Meet the Challenge of Migrations - Welcoming, Protecting, Promoting and Integrating.- 14. Ecclesia Semper Migranda: Towards a Vision of a Migrant Church for Migrants.- 15. Mapping a Contextual Theology of African Migration.- 16. African Migrant Christians Changing the Landscape of Christianity in the West: Reading the Signs of the Times.- 17. Stories of Transformation: African Immigrants to the USA and the Dark Night of St. John of the Cross.- 18. When There is Nowhere to Rest Our Heads: Is In(ter)culturation Optional?.- 19. Grace and Dis-Grace: The Australian Catholic Church's 70-Year Engagement with Governmental Migration Policy (1948-2018).- 20. Pedagogy of Migration: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto's Response to Immigration (1934-1963).- 21. Ukrainian Churches and Migration in Canada: Re-Imagining History and the Present.
