Snyder, Susanna 1978-

Asylum-Seeking, Migration and Church - London Routledge 2016 - xvi, 293p ill., filmography ; 25 cm. - Explorations in Practical, Pastoral, and Empirical Theology .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-285) and index.

Setting the scene -- Encountering migrants -- On the way to a performative and liberatory theology -- Supporting asylum seekers: church activities and projects -- Flight and fright: experiences of seeking sanctuary -- Flight: the global dynamics of migration -- Fright: the dynamics of fear within established populations -- Encountering strangers in the Bible -- Approaching strangers -- Ecology of fear: Ezra-Nehemiah -- Ecology of faith: Ruth and the Syro-Phoenician woman -- Moving our encounters on.

9781409423003 (Pbk) 9781409422990 (alk. paper) 9781409423010 (ebook)

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Church work with refugees.
Church work with immigrants.
Asylum, Right of--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--Christianity.

BV4466 / .S69 2012

C82 / SN921