Title:	Church in an Age of Global Migration
Authors:	Mark Chapman Gerard Mannion Susanna Snyder, Joshua Ralston, and Agnes M. Brazal
Keywords:	Church work with immigrants
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	This book similarly seeks to construct a collage. As editors, we wish to piece together a collage of ecclesial practices, understandings, and realities that have emerged and are continuing to emerge in the face of global migration. Weaving together theoretical and practical perspectives on what it means to be church, we do not produce an overarching narrative or theory of a “moving church”—impossible even if it was desirable given the rapidly shifting migration context— but rather allow each context to speak for itself. We hope to offer, as Duncan Forrester put it, fragments that may be illuminating as opposed to comprehensive analyses or neat conceptualizations.2 Each contributor offers an answer to the question, How are churches changing—in terms of theology, identity, and practice—in the face of global migration? Together, we rearticulate the challenge posed at the outset of this introduction by Gioacchino Campese: Are churches ready and willing to be transformed by those among us on the move? If Christian communities are to make for an authentic and inclusive Body of Christ in the twenty-first century, this challenge needs to be heard and responded to by ecclesiologists, pastors, lay workers, and church members alike wherever migration is transforming church—in sending, receiving, and transit countries.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54111
ISBN:	978-1-137-51812-5
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.