Christianities in Migration: The Global Perspective(Christianities of the World)

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:
Introduction; Elaine Padilla and Peter C. Phan 1. Christianity as an Institutional Migrant: Historical, Theological, and Ethical Perspectives; Peter C. Phan 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; Jehu J. Hanciles 3. 'Dislodgings and Reformation: Expanding Christianity in Africa and in the Diaspora; Elias K. Bongmba and Akintunde E. Akinade 4. Intercultural Church: A Challenge in the Asian Migrant Context; Agnes M. Brazal and Emmanuel S. de Guzman 5. Emerging Christianities in Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Brazilian and Filipino Migrant Churches; Kanan Kitani 6. Migration and mission routes/roots in Oceania; Jione Havea 7. Graced by Migration: An Australian Perspective; Patricia Madigan, OP 8. Re-Imagining Boundaries in Europe: Migrant Utopias and Theological Eschatology; Michael Nausner 9. Migration, Pastoral Action and Latin America; Ana Maria and Gabriel Bidegain Greising 10. Migration and Theology in a Canadian Context; Thomas E. Reynolds 11. Faces of Migration: U.S. Christianity in the Twenty-First Century; Susanna Snyder 12. Religion, Environmental Racism, and Migrations of Black Body and Soul; James S. Logan 13. Latino Migrations and the Transformation of Religion in the United States: Framing the Question; Allan Figueroa Deck, SJ 14. Transnational Religious Networks: From Africa to America and back to Africa; Moses O. Biney 15. The End of Christianity; Elaine Padilla

About the Author :
Elaine Padilla is Assistant Professor of Constructive Theology at New York Theological Seminary, USA. Her theological analysis constructively interweaves current philosophical discourse with Christianity, Latin American and Latino/a religious thought, mysticism, ecology, and gender. She is the author of Divine Enjoyment: A Theology of Passion and Exuberance. Peter C. Phan is the inaugural holder of the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University, USA. He has authored a dozen books and over 300 essays on various aspects of Christian theology and missiology. Among his books are: Christianity with an Asian Face; In Our Own Tongues; and Being Religious Interreligiously. He recently edited Christianities in Asia and The Cambridge Companion to the Trinity.

Review :
'To be a Christian is to base one's faith and theology on stories of migration and immigration. Reflecting on migration accounts occurring throughout the globe today, this book provides a rich analysis to the Christian faith and, in so doing, provides a corrective theology.' - Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver, USA "This book is not only about the migration of people but the migration of theology. As it ventures beyond the established intellectual territories of European Christendom, it opens up new pathways for thinking about global mission and new avenues for responding to some of the world's most vulnerable people."—Daniel G. Groody, University of Notre Dame 'Migration is central to the history of the Christian church—locally, regionally, and globally. Today, the unprecedented scale of migration demands fresh and creative theological reflection for a rapidly changing world. Christianities in Migration features voices from every continent wrestling with the challenges that world migrations are bringing to Christian identity, ministry, and mission. We need volumes like this one to orient us in 'esta coyuntura histórica especial,' this special historical moment.' - M. Daniel Carroll R., Denver Seminary, USA