This book focuses on the Philippines as a powerhouse in the Catholic and global migration landscape. It offers a wide-ranging look at the roles, dynamics, character, and trajectories of Catholic faith and practice in the age of migration through an interdisciplinary, religious, and theological approach to Filipino Catholics experience of migration and diaspora both at home and overseas. In so doing, the book introduces the reader to the hallmarks and characteristics of a contextual model of world Christianity and global Catholicism in the twenty-first century.
This book focuses on the Philippines as a powerhouse in the Catholic and global migration landscape.
Introduction, Part
1. Culture and Religious Experience,
1. Looking for
God in the Complexities of Filipino Migration and Diaspora: Theology and
Filipino Cultural Identities in a Globalized World,
2. Toward Sambayanihan in
Europe: A Filipino Ecclesiology of Migration,
3. Popular Piety in Migrant
Journeys toward Redemption,
4. What I Have Seen and Heard: The Gifts of
Filipino Catholics to the US Catholic Church,
5. Faith on the Move: Religious
Conversion among Filipino Migrants in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and the USA,
Part
2. Political Economy and Social Ethics,
6. Migrant Remittances,
Development, and Catholic Social Teaching,
7. Migration with Dignity and
Climate Justice: Haiyan, Climate Change, and Displacement,
8. The Ties that
Unbind: Filipino Female Transmigration and the Left-Behind Family as Domestic
Church of the Poor through the Lens of the Federation of Asian Bishops
Conferences,
9. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Filipinas in International
Marriage Migration,
10. Cosmopolitanism and Filipinx Crossing Borders: Agency
Faces Ethnic and Gender Profiling, Part
3. Mission and Ministry,
11. Home and
Away: The Philippine Catholic Churchs Local and Global Migrant Ministry,
12.
Catholicism across the Seas: Faith and Pastoral Care among Filipino
Seafarers,
13. Ginhawa: In Pursuit of Immigrant Life in Abundance,
14.
Overseas Filipino Workers and Missionary Discipleship: Rethinking missio ad
gentes in the Context of the Filipino Diaspora
Gemma Tulud Cruz is Senior Lecturer in Theology and a member of the Institute of Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University. She is author of numerous publications on migration theologies including Christianity Across Borders: Theology and Contemporary Issues in Global Migration (Routledge, 2021).
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