Church in an Age of Global Migration

Migration has become a defining feature of the contemporary age. It has brought about significant changes in political, economic, social, and religious landscapes. This volume explores a question that has been little considered to date: how are churches being transformed in the face of global migration? The book features contributors from diverse national, denominational, cultural, professional, and linguistic backgrounds. Their essays reveal the ways in which migrants and the phenomenon of migration expose longstanding gaps and failings within Christian communities. However, the prevalence of migration and migrants simultaneously opens up fresh possibilities for churches to grow, renew, becoming more authentic, dynamic, and diverse. Church in an Age of Global Migration presents a collage of embodied ecclesial practices, understandings, and realities that have emerged and are continuing to develop in the face of global migration. Committed to transnational and ecumenical dialogue, and to integrating practical and theoretical perspectives, this volume is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of the ways in which churches are being changed by migrants.

Auteur

Susanna Snyder is Assistant Director, Catherine of Siena Virtual College, and Tutor in Theology at the University of Roehampton, UK. She is also a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent's Park College, Oxford, UK.

Joshua Ralston is Lecturer in Muslim-Christian Relations at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK. He has worked with refugee resettlement in the United States for a number of years and has published essays and chapters on ecclesiology and political theology.

Agnes M. Brazal is Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator, and Director of the Office of Research and Publications at St. Vincent School of Theology, Adamson University, Philippines. She is past president of DaKaTeo (Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines) and Former Coordinator of the Ecclesia of Women in Asia.

Résumé

This volume examines the ways in which migrants and the phenomenon of migration expose longstanding gaps and failings within Christian communities but also open up fresh possibilities for churches to grow and diversify.

Contenu
Introduction: Moving Body; Susanna Snyder
PART I: DENOMINATIONAL VISIONS OF MIGRANT ECCLESIOLOGY

1. 'You are Close to the Church's Heart': Pope Francis and Migrants; Gioacchino Campese
2. 'Gathered from all Nations:' Migration, Catholicity, and Reformed Ecclesiology; Joshua Ralston
3. Orthodox Church(es) Stepping Outside the Heartland; Maria Hämmerli
4. Being Church as Latina/o Pentecostals; Néstor Medina
   PART II: REIMAGINING TRADITIONAL ECCLESIAL TASKS
5. The Promise of a Pilgrim Church: Ecclesiological Reflections on the Ethical Praxis of Kinship with Migrants; Kristin Heyer
6. Migration, Higher Education, and the Changing Church; James Walters
7. Liturgy in Migration and Migrants in Liturgy; Hyeran Kim-Cragg and Stephen Burns
8. Worshipping with the Homeless: Foreign Ecclesiologies; Claudio Carvalhaes
9. Woman, Where Have You Come from and Where Are You Going?': Circular Female Migration, The Catholic Church and Pastoral Care in India; Patricia Santos
10. Patron Saint of Catholics and Hindus: Saint Antony and Ecclesial Hospitality in East London; Alana Harris
11. Not Quite Here: Queer Ecclesial Spaces in the Filipino Diaspora; Michael Sepidoza Campos
    PART III: NEW ECCLESIAL STRUCTURES
12. Cyberchurch and Filipino Migrants in the Middle East; Agnes Brazal and Randy Odchigue
13. Vulnerable and Missional: Congregations of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon; Daniel Chetti
14. Intentional Community and Displaced People: Dwelling Together in the Body of Christ; Jennifer Drago
15. Interreligious Dialogue in a Nomadic Church: The Witness of Jesuit Refugee Service in Eastern Africa; Deogratias Rwezaura
16. Ghanaian Presbyterians in America: Why Some Join American Denominations and Others Don't; Moses Biney