This book sets out to explore the intersection between religion, identity and migration. It challenges static notions of diaspora, stable identities and Western-centred notions of Christianity and offers kaleidoscopic insights from Pentecostal, migrant and intercultural perspectives.

«Babel is everywhere! Migrant readings from Africa, Europe and Asia» sets out to explore the intersection between religion, identity and migration. It does so by telling entangled histories between diaspora/s and homeland and by analysing biblical in-roads to issues and challenges of migration. It also explores hyphenated identities and takes a close look at the role of migrant religion specifically regarding issues of mission, of identity formation and of ecclesial and societal formation. This book challenges static notions of diaspora, stable identities and Western-centred notions of Christianity and offers kaleidoscopic insights from Pentecostal, migrant and intercultural perspectives.

Autorentext

J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu is Professor of Contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology at the Trinity Theological Seminary, Accra (Ghana). Andrea Fröchtling is Professor for Practical Theology in Intercultural Perspective at the University of Applied Sciences, Hermannsburg (Germany). Andreas Kunz-Lübcke is Professor for Biblical Hermeneutics in Intercultural Perspective at the University of Applied Sciences, Hermannsburg (Germany).

Inhalt

Contents: Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu/Andrea Fröchtling/Andreas Kunz-Lübcke: Babel is everywhere! Migrant readings from Africa, Europe, and Asia - Robert K. Aboagye-Mensah: Perspectives on Theological and Biblical Migration and Mission - Jione Havea: Casting Jonah across Seas and Tongues: A transnationalizing reading - Drea Fröchtling: Crossing the Waters of Babylon: Diasporas between Ecumenical Glob/calizations and Spiritual Homelands - Andreas Kunz-Lübcke: Daughters, Priest and Idolaters: Cross-cultural Marriages in the Hebrew Bible - about Ghetto-doors and (sometimes) an Open Society - Chinonyerem Chijioke Ekebuisi: Indigenous Prophetic Figures and Religious Innovation in Africa: The Story of Garrick Sokari Braide of the Niger Delta - Thomas A. Oduro: Socio-cultural Challenges of African Migrant Churches in Africa: A Case Study of the Church of the Lord (Aldura) in Ghana (1953-1974) - Sylvia Owusu-Ansah/J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu: Exporting Charismatic Anointing: Power-Packed Evangelistic Crusades and Ministry in African Diasporas - Emily Phuti Mogase: Migration of Ideas in the Rise of Nationalism: West Africa and the Black Atlantic World around the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries - Frieder Ludwig: West-Africans in Germany - J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu: African Christian Revitalization in Europe: Migration and the Mega-Church Phenomenon - Andrew Rogers: Walking Down the Old Kent Road: A Story of New Black Majority Churches in a London Borough - Michael P. K. Okyerefo: African Catholic Communities in Europe: A Nostalgic Lived Experience - Regina Jach: «You will never be the same again ...»: Return Migration from Germany to Ghana and the Impact of Churches - Joseph Quayesi-Amakye: Contemporary Ghanaian Prophetism and Christian Mission in the Diaspora - Anne Kubai: «Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land»: Challenges and New Frontiers for African Churches in Sweden.