Church in an Age of Global Migration

Susanna Snyder is Assistant Director, Catherine of Siena Virtual College, and Tutor in Theology at the University of Roehampton, UK. She is also a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent's Park College, Oxford, UK. Joshua Ralston is Lecturer in Muslim-Christian Relations at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK. He has worked with refugee resettlement in the United States for a number of years and has published essays and chapters on ecclesiology and political theology.Agnes M. Brazal is Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator, and Director of the Office of Research and Publications at St. Vincent School of Theology, Adamson University, Philippines. She is past president of DaKaTeo (Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines) and Former Coordinator of the Ecclesia of Women in Asia.

"The gospels tell us that Jesus had no house of his own, and nowhere to lay his head. He was a permanently displaced person. Central to the gospel is the idea that we are all aliens and strangers-yet to God, friends. This remarkable book is vivid, wise, and imaginative, and makes a highly significant contribution to our understanding of the church today. It is a rich and rewarding blend of practical and contextual theology. It deserves to be widely read and deeply engaged with." - The Very Revd. Professor Martyn Percy, Dean, Christ Church, Oxford, UK "This welcome anthology makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of publications on a global phenomenon reshaping continents. Covering new ground, the diverse essays reflect complex experiences of migrations, entertaining these particularities as loci for theology, liturgy, and pastoral practices." - Carmen Nanko-Fernandez, Professor of Hispanic Theology and Ministry, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, USA "This is an impressive re-imagination of the theological self-understanding of church in the context of migration and a critical shift from understanding church as provider of humanitarian services to church as moving Body of Christ-embodied, yet mobile; dynamic, yet prophetic, a living, breathing, and growing community en route toward the fullness of the Reign of God. This volume is a must-have resource for pastors, practitioners, activists, ecclesial leaders, scholars, students, social ethicists, and formers of public policies who wish to be informed of the tasks and opportunities, the challenges and promises of migration as the way of envisaging and envisioning church and society in the context of globalization." - Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, SJ, Jesuit School of Theology and Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations, Hekima University College, Kenya

• Introduction: Moving Body; Susanna SnyderPART I: DENOMINATIONAL VISIONS OF MIGRANT ECCLESIOLOGY1. 'You are Close to the Church's Heart': Pope Francis and Migrants; Gioacchino Campese 2. 'Gathered from all Nations:' Migration, Catholicity, and Reformed Ecclesiology; Joshua Ralston3. Orthodox Church(es) Stepping Outside the Heartland; Maria Hämmerli4. Being Church as Latina/o Pentecostals; Néstor MedinaPART II: REIMAGINING TRADITIONAL ECCLESIAL TASKS5. The Promise of a Pilgrim Church: Ecclesiological Reflections on the Ethical Praxis of Kinship with Migrants; Kristin Heyer6. Migration, Higher Education, and the Changing Church; James Walters 7. Liturgy in Migration and Migrants in Liturgy; Hyeran Kim-Cragg and Stephen Burns8. Worshipping with the Homeless: Foreign Ecclesiologies; Claudio Carvalhaes9. Woman, Where Have You Come from and Where Are You Going?': Circular Female Migration, The Catholic Church and Pastoral Care in India; Patricia Santos 10. Patron Saint of Catholics and Hindus: Saint Antony and Ecclesial Hospitality in East London; Alana Harris11. Not Quite Here: Queer Ecclesial Spaces in the Filipino Diaspora; Michael Sepidoza CamposPART III: NEW ECCLESIAL STRUCTURES12. Cyberchurch and Filipino Migrants in the Middle East; Agnes Brazal and Randy Odchigue13. Vulnerable and Missional: Congregations of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon; Daniel Chetti 14. Intentional Community and Displaced People: Dwelling Together in the Body of Christ; Jennifer Drago15. Interreligious Dialogue in a Nomadic Church: The Witness of Jesuit Refugee Service in Eastern Africa; Deogratias Rwezaura16. Ghanaian Presbyterians in America: Why Some Join American Denominations and Others Don't; Moses Biney