Alexander Y. Hwang is adjunct faculty at Saint Leo University and associate dean of international faculty at the Université Protestante au Coeur du Congo. Laura E. Alexander is assistant professor of religious studies and holds the Goldstein Family Community Chair of Human Rights at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith: Interreligious Reflections on Immigration, edited by Alexander Hwang and Laura Alexander, offers a refreshing alternative to current rhetoric concerning global issues of immigration. This book is a timely and valuable tool to help move the conversation forward about critical immigration challenges and pluralistic religious issues that are growing concerns for contemporary society.

• Chapter 1“Islamic Creation Theology and the Human Being as Migrant” Zeyneb Sayilgan Chapter 2 “Interreligious Responses to the Settlement House Movement, 188 –924”Anne Blankenship Chapter 3 “From the American Protective Association to Trump’s America First: American Xenophobia in Historical Perspective”James McBrideChapter 4“Geohistory and Genomics: Implications for the Doctrine of Revelation” Ron Choong Chapter 5“The Divine Principle: Moon’s Prescription for Restoring America and the World Compared with Swami Prabhupada’s Approach”Dawn HutchinsonSection 2. Perceptions of ImmigrantsChapter 6“Immigrants as Terra Nullius: On the Need for a Comparative Theology of Decolonization”Allen G. Jorgenson Chapter 7 “The Christian Criteria for Assimilation: Racially Reading Christianity, Civility, and Social Belonging in the Modern Western World”Jessica Wai-Fong WongChapter 8“Migration and Interfaith Pedagogy: Crossing the Borders of Classrooms, Cultures, and Religions”Kristine Suna-Koro Chapter 9“The Great Exchange: An Interfaith Praxis of Absolute Hospitality for Asylum Seekers” Helen Boursier Chapter 10“Hafu or Dabaru? An Inter-religious Analysis of Migration and Japanese Cultural Identity”Loye Sekihata AshtonSection 3. Ethical, Political and Legal PerspectivesChapter 11“The Moral Relevance of Borders: Transcendence and the Ethics of Migration”Benjamin SchewelChapter 12“Immigration and the Theological Problem of Sovereignty: Catholic Social Teaching, Carl Schmitt, and the Theopolitical Foundations of the Modern State”Matt R. Jantzen Chapter 13“Religious Kinesis: A Challenge to the Plenary Power Doctrine’s Anthropology of Stasis”Silas W. AllardChapter 14“Majority Church and Immigration: A Norwegian Case Study”Kjetil FretheimChapter 15“The Global Refugee Crisis and Religious Ethics: Questions to Ask”Laura E. Alexander Section 4: My Neighbor’s Faith and MineChapter 16“On Being a Muslim in a Non-Islamic Society: Seeing Islam in the ‘Other’”Hussam S. Timani Chapter 17“Immigration and Ecclesial Receptivity: Congar and Rahner as Resources for an Ecumenical and Philoxenical Ecclesiology of Reception”Michael M. Canaris Chapter 18“Who is My Neighbor to Me: An Augustinian Reflection”Alexander Y. Hwang Chapter 19“An Evangelical Reflection on My Non-Christian Neighbor”Ken Fong Chapter 20“European Immigration to America: Dislocation and Responses”Dan Campana Chapter 21 “A Jewish Problematization of My Neighbor’s Faith”Daniel Maoz Chapter 22“‘Becoming American’: Muslim Neighbors Embracing a Judeo-Christian Country”Zahra Jamal

Alexander Y. Hwang is adjunct faculty at Saint Leo University and associate dean of international faculty at the Université Protestante au Coeur du Congo. Laura E. Alexander is assistant professor of religious studies and holds the Goldstein Family Community Chair of Human Rights at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith: Interreligious Reflections on Immigration, edited by Alexander Hwang and Laura Alexander, offers a refreshing alternative to current rhetoric concerning global issues of immigration. This book is a timely and valuable tool to help move the conversation forward about critical immigration challenges and pluralistic religious issues that are growing concerns for contemporary society.

• Chapter 1“Islamic Creation Theology and the Human Being as Migrant” Zeyneb Sayilgan Chapter 2 “Interreligious Responses to the Settlement House Movement, 188 –924”Anne Blankenship Chapter 3 “From the American Protective Association to Trump’s America First: American Xenophobia in Historical Perspective”James McBrideChapter 4“Geohistory and Genomics: Implications for the Doctrine of Revelation” Ron Choong Chapter 5“The Divine Principle: Moon’s Prescription for Restoring America and the World Compared with Swami Prabhupada’s Approach”Dawn HutchinsonSection 2. Perceptions of ImmigrantsChapter 6“Immigrants as Terra Nullius: On the Need for a Comparative Theology of Decolonization”Allen G. Jorgenson Chapter 7 “The Christian Criteria for Assimilation: Racially Reading Christianity, Civility, and Social Belonging in the Modern Western World”Jessica Wai-Fong WongChapter 8“Migration and Interfaith Pedagogy: Crossing the Borders of Classrooms, Cultures, and Religions”Kristine Suna-Koro Chapter 9“The Great Exchange: An Interfaith Praxis of Absolute Hospitality for Asylum Seekers” Helen Boursier Chapter 10“Hafu or Dabaru? An Inter-religious Analysis of Migration and Japanese Cultural Identity”Loye Sekihata AshtonSection 3. Ethical, Political and Legal PerspectivesChapter 11“The Moral Relevance of Borders: Transcendence and the Ethics of Migration”Benjamin SchewelChapter 12“Immigration and the Theological Problem of Sovereignty: Catholic Social Teaching, Carl Schmitt, and the Theopolitical Foundations of the Modern State”Matt R. Jantzen Chapter 13“Religious Kinesis: A Challenge to the Plenary Power Doctrine’s Anthropology of Stasis”Silas W. AllardChapter 14“Majority Church and Immigration: A Norwegian Case Study”Kjetil FretheimChapter 15“The Global Refugee Crisis and Religious Ethics: Questions to Ask”Laura E. Alexander Section 4: My Neighbor’s Faith and MineChapter 16“On Being a Muslim in a Non-Islamic Society: Seeing Islam in the ‘Other’”Hussam S. Timani Chapter 17“Immigration and Ecclesial Receptivity: Congar and Rahner as Resources for an Ecumenical and Philoxenical Ecclesiology of Reception”Michael M. Canaris Chapter 18“Who is My Neighbor to Me: An Augustinian Reflection”Alexander Y. Hwang Chapter 19“An Evangelical Reflection on My Non-Christian Neighbor”Ken Fong Chapter 20“European Immigration to America: Dislocation and Responses”Dan Campana Chapter 21 “A Jewish Problematization of My Neighbor’s Faith”Daniel Maoz Chapter 22“‘Becoming American’: Muslim Neighbors Embracing a Judeo-Christian Country”Zahra Jamal

Alexander Y. Hwang is adjunct faculty at Saint Leo University and associate dean of international faculty at the Université Protestante au Coeur du Congo. Laura E. Alexander is assistant professor of religious studies and holds the Goldstein Family Community Chair of Human Rights at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith: Interreligious Reflections on Immigration, edited by Alexander Hwang and Laura Alexander, offers a refreshing alternative to current rhetoric concerning global issues of immigration. This book is a timely and valuable tool to help move the conversation forward about critical immigration challenges and pluralistic religious issues that are growing concerns for contemporary society.

• Chapter 1“Islamic Creation Theology and the Human Being as Migrant” Zeyneb Sayilgan Chapter 2 “Interreligious Responses to the Settlement House Movement, 188 –924”Anne Blankenship Chapter 3 “From the American Protective Association to Trump’s America First: American Xenophobia in Historical Perspective”James McBrideChapter 4“Geohistory and Genomics: Implications for the Doctrine of Revelation” Ron Choong Chapter 5“The Divine Principle: Moon’s Prescription for Restoring America and the World Compared with Swami Prabhupada’s Approach”Dawn HutchinsonSection 2. Perceptions of ImmigrantsChapter 6“Immigrants as Terra Nullius: On the Need for a Comparative Theology of Decolonization”Allen G. Jorgenson Chapter 7 “The Christian Criteria for Assimilation: Racially Reading Christianity, Civility, and Social Belonging in the Modern Western World”Jessica Wai-Fong WongChapter 8“Migration and Interfaith Pedagogy: Crossing the Borders of Classrooms, Cultures, and Religions”Kristine Suna-Koro Chapter 9“The Great Exchange: An Interfaith Praxis of Absolute Hospitality for Asylum Seekers” Helen Boursier Chapter 10“Hafu or Dabaru? An Inter-religious Analysis of Migration and Japanese Cultural Identity”Loye Sekihata AshtonSection 3. Ethical, Political and Legal PerspectivesChapter 11“The Moral Relevance of Borders: Transcendence and the Ethics of Migration”Benjamin SchewelChapter 12“Immigration and the Theological Problem of Sovereignty: Catholic Social Teaching, Carl Schmitt, and the Theopolitical Foundations of the Modern State”Matt R. Jantzen Chapter 13“Religious Kinesis: A Challenge to the Plenary Power Doctrine’s Anthropology of Stasis”Silas W. AllardChapter 14“Majority Church and Immigration: A Norwegian Case Study”Kjetil FretheimChapter 15“The Global Refugee Crisis and Religious Ethics: Questions to Ask”Laura E. Alexander Section 4: My Neighbor’s Faith and MineChapter 16“On Being a Muslim in a Non-Islamic Society: Seeing Islam in the ‘Other’”Hussam S. Timani Chapter 17“Immigration and Ecclesial Receptivity: Congar and Rahner as Resources for an Ecumenical and Philoxenical Ecclesiology of Reception”Michael M. Canaris Chapter 18“Who is My Neighbor to Me: An Augustinian Reflection”Alexander Y. Hwang Chapter 19“An Evangelical Reflection on My Non-Christian Neighbor”Ken Fong Chapter 20“European Immigration to America: Dislocation and Responses”Dan Campana Chapter 21 “A Jewish Problematization of My Neighbor’s Faith”Daniel Maoz Chapter 22“‘Becoming American’: Muslim Neighbors Embracing a Judeo-Christian Country”Zahra Jamal