Christianity across borders : theology and contemporary issues in global migration / Gemma Tulud Cruz.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of key issues in contemporary global migration and considers the theological implications for Christianity, in general, and for Christian faith and practice in various parts of the world, in particular. Migrant Christians, who make up the majority of beli...
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2021.
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| Series: | Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I. Politics of Marginality and Identity
- 1. Resident alien : home in the age of migration
- 2. Bonding and bridging : Christianity as lived religion among African and Asian migrants in the Global North
- 3. Liberating faith : popular religiosity and power among Latinx migrants in the United States
- 4. Portable homeland : transnationalism among Catholics
- 5. Toward an intercultural feminist theology : vross-border feminist scholarship and activism
- 6. Toward healing : vlimate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, and migration
- PART II. Special Populations
- 7. Reimagining the moral economy of kinship : the family and global migration
- 8. A good woman, a true marriage? : cross-border marriage migrants and gender
- 9. Witness as withness : underclass migrant workers and pastoral ministry by the churches
- 10. Toward just and inclusive communities : "undesirable aliens" and Christian mission in the context of the European migrant and refugee crisis of 2015 and its aftermath
- 11. "Disposable people" : trafficked persons and Christian vulnerability
- 12. Shining a light on hope : immigration advocates and humanitarian workers through the lens of migrant resilience.