Religion and Migration: Negotiating Hospitality, Agency and Vulnerability

by Andrea Bieler (Editor), Isolde Karle (Editor), HyeRan Kim-Cragg (Editor), Ilona Nord (Editor)

Overview

This volume explores religious discourses and practices of hospitality in the context of migration. It articulates the implied ambivalences and even contradictions as well as the potential to contribute to a more just world through social interconnection with others. The book features contributors from diverse national, denominational, cultural, and racial backgrounds. Their essays reveal a dichotomy of hospitality between guest and host, while tackling the meaning of home or the loss of it, interrogating both the peril and promise of the relationship between religion, chiefly Christianity, and hospitality, and focusing on the role of migrants' vulnerability and agency, by drawing from empirical, theological, sociological and anthropological insights emerged from postcolonial migration contexts. With contributions by Andrea Bieler, Jione Havea, Claudia Hoffmann, Hye Ran Kim-Cragg, Claudia Jahnel, Isolde Karle, Buhle Mpofu, Armin Nassehi, Ilona Nord, Henrietta Nyamnjoh, Regina Polak, Ludger Pries, Thomas Reynolds, Harsha Walia, Jula Well, and Birgit Weyel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783374061310
Publisher:	Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction: Religion and Migration: Negotiating Hospitality, Agency and Vulnerability Andrea Bieler HyeRan Kim-Cragg Isolde Karle Ilona Nord 9

I Migrants' Agency and Changing Landscapes of Religion

Transnational Migration and the Travelling of Religious Beliefs Ludger Pries Rafael Bohlen 21

Migration and Justice: Postcolonial Discourses on Migration as Challenge and Partner for Theology Claudia Jahnel 41

Migrants as Agents of Social and Religious Innovation Regina Polak 61

Theologies of Belonging and Emerging Transnational Identities in Southern Africa Buhle Mpofu 79

II Rethinking Hospitality and Home

Migrant Churches in Switzerland and their Networking Strategies Claudia Hoffmann 93

Beyond Hospitality? Unsettling Theology and Migration in Canada Thomas E. Reynolds 109

Indigenous and Newcomers: An Opportunity for Collaboration Ray Aldred 125

Responding to the Loss of Home: Perspectives and Practices of Refugees in the Context of Projekt DA-SEIN in Basel (Switzerland) Andrea Bieler Katherine Kunz 133

Images of Feeling at Home: A Digital Short Story Project with Young Migrants Ilona Nord Katja Höglinger 147

Religious Reasoning and Social Engagement in Support of Refugees and Migrants Isolde Karle 163

III Public Discourse and Religious Practice

Globalized Healing and Evangelism: The Quest for Health and Healing among Cameroonian Migrants in Cape Town (South Africa) Henrietta M. Nyamnjoh 183

The Pathos of Mark's Jesus and the Pathos of Migrant Life: Migration as a Source for Theology and Biblical Interpretation Julius-Kei Kato 203

Migration and the Hebrew Bible: A Pasifikation, in Solidarity for West Papua Jione Havea 219

Home, Hospitality, and Preaching: A Need for the Homiletical Engagement of Migration HyeRan Kim-Cragg 233

Political Dissent as Challenge: Religious Discourse in the Public Sphere in Germany at the Time of the So-called Refugee Crisis Jula Elene Well 247

List of Contributors 259