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?

Autorentext

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.

Zusammenfassung

Christianities in Migration journeys through continents, regions, nations, and villages, in order for the multiple stories of migrants to serve as theological reflection of diverse forms of indigenization of Christianity. It seeks to provide a Christian and theological response to the present trends of globalization and migration.

Inhalt

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