Asylum-seeking, migration and church
By: Susanna Snyder
Series: Explorations in practical, pastoral, and empirical theology
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781409422990; 9781409423010
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Church work with refugees; Right of Asylum; Church work with immigrants; Christianity
Description: This book outlines ways in which churches are currently supporting asylum seekers, encouraging closer engagement with people seen as 'other' and more thoughtful responses to newcomers. Creatively exploring biblical and theological traditions surrounding the 'stranger', Snyder argues that as well as practising a vision of inclusive community churches would do well to engage with established population fears. Trends in global migration and the dynamics of fear and hostility surrounding immigration are critically and creatively explored throughout the book. Inviting more complex, nuanced responses to asylum seekers and immigrants, this book offers invaluable insights to those interested in Christian ethics, practical theology, social work, mission and faith and social action, as well as those working in the field of migration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene; title: Encountering migrants; title: On the way to a performative and liberatory theology; title: Supporting asylum seekers: church activities and projects; title: Flight and fright: experiences of seeking sanctuary; title: Flight: the global dynamics of migration; title: Fright: the dynamics of fear within established populations; title: Encountering strangers in the Bible; title: Approaching strangers; title: Ecology of fear: Ezra-Nehemiah; title: Ecology of faith: Ruth and the Syro-Phoenician woman; title: Moving our encounters on.