ABSTRACT

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 believers on the move and in diaspora, play an increasingly vital role in world Christianity today. Drawing on cases from across the globe, Gemma Tulud Cruz considers how Christians are faced with immense gifts and tremendous challenges brought by the ever-increasing presence of migrants in their midst and the conditions that characterize contemporary global migration. Migrant Christians themselves face multiple challenges, which have been made more stark by the coronavirus pandemic.

The volume will be relevant to scholars of religion and of migration who are interested in a closer examination of what happens to Christians and Christianity, (faith) communities, and nation-states in the age of migration.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

part I|125 pages

Politics of marginality and identity

chapter 1|18 pages

Resident alien

Home in the age of migration

chapter 2|18 pages

Bonding and bridging

Christianity as lived religion among African and Asian migrants in the Global North

chapter 3|16 pages

Liberating faith

Popular religiosity and power among Latinx migrants in the United States

chapter 4|21 pages

Portable homeland

Transnationalism among Catholics

chapter 5|19 pages

Toward an intercultural feminist theology

Cross-border feminist scholarship and activism

chapter 6|31 pages

Toward healing

Climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, and migration

part II|121 pages

Special populations

chapter 7|27 pages

Reimagining the moral economy of kinship

The family and global migration

chapter 8|21 pages

A good woman, a true marriage?

Cross-border marriage migrants and gender

chapter 9|18 pages

Witness as withness

Underclass migrant workers and pastoral ministry by the Churches

chapter 10|20 pages

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

chapter 11|16 pages

“Disposable people”

Trafficked persons and Christian vulnerability

chapter 12|17 pages

Shining a light on hope

Immigration advocates and humanitarian workers through the lens of migrant resilience