Christianities in Migration

The Global Perspective

Peter C. Phan, Elaine Padilla, Peter C. Phan, Elaine Padilla

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781137032874
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137031648
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christianity

This book migrates through continents, regions, nations, and villages, in order to tell the stories of diverse kinds of nomadic dwellers. It departs from Africa, en routes itself toward Asia, Oceania, Europe, and culminates in the Americas, with the territories of Latin America, Canada, and the United States. The volume travels through worn out pathways of migration that continue to be threaded upon today, and theologically reflects on a wide range of migratory aims that result also in diverse forms of indigenization of Christianity. Among the main issues being considered are: How have globalization and migration affected the theological self-understanding of Christianity? In light of globalization and migration, how is the evangelizing mission of Christianity to be understood and carried out? What ecclesiastical reforms if any are required to enable the church to meet present-day challenges?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Christianity as an Institutional Migrant: Historical, Theological, and Ethical Perspectives
• Chapter 2 “Singing the Song of the Lord on Foreign Soil”: What the Early Centuries Tell Us about the Migrant Factor in the Making of Global Christianity
• Chapter 3 Dislodgings and Reformation: Expanding Christianity in Africa and in the Diaspora
• Chapter 4 Intercultural Church: A Challenge in the Asian Migrant Context
• Chapter 5 Emerging Christianities in Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Brazilian and Filipino Migrant Churches
• Chapter 6 Migration and Mission Routes/Roots in Oceania
• Chapter 7 Graced by Migration: An Australian Perspective
• Chapter 8 Reimagining Boundaries in Europe: Migrant Utopias and Theological Eschatology
• Chapter 9 Migration, Pastoral Action, and Latin America
• Chapter 10 Migration and Christianity in a Canadian Context
• Chapter 11 Faces of Migration: US Christianity in the Twenty-First Century
• Chapter 12 Religion, Environmental Racism, and Migrations of Black Body and Soul
• Chapter 13 Latino Migrations and the Transformation of Religion in the United States: Framing the Question
• Chapter 14 Transnational Religious Networks: From Africa to America and Back to Africa
• Chapter 15 The End of Christianity
• Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index