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