Intersections of Religion and Migration: Issues at the Global Crossroads – Jennifer B. Saunders, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Susanna Snyder (Eds.)
Editor(s): Jennifer B. Saunders, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Susanna Snyder
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Print Length: 373 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Migration & Refugee Studies, Non-Fiction / Politics & Political Science, Non-Fiction / Religious Studies, Non-Fiction / Social Science
Area: The United States of America (USA)
Topic: Diaspora, Ethics & Morality, Exile & Exodus, Gender, Global System, Humanitarian Action & Humanitarianism, Identity, Migration, Policy & Practice, Politics & Power, Psychology, Race, Refugees & Forced Migration, Religion, Sexuality, Social Network, Solidarity, Spirituality, Theology
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Articulating Intersections at the Global Crossroads of Religion and Migration – Jennifer B. Saunders , Susanna Snyder , and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Part I Religion and Experiences of Migration
2 Religion as Psychological, Spiritual, and Social Support in the Migration Undertaking – Holly Straut Eppsteiner and Jacqueline Hagan
3 Living Religious Practices – Kim Knott
4 The Challenges of Migration and the Construction of Religious Identities: The Case of Muslims in America – Zayn Kassam
5 Racialization of Religion and Global Migration – Khyati Y. Joshi
6 Embodied (Dis)Placements: The Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Migration Studies – Hugo Córdova Quero
Part II Approaches to the Study of Religion and Migration
7 Home and Away: Exile and Diaspora as
Religious Concepts – Ellen Posman
8 Exploring the Contours of Transnational Religious Spaces and Networks – Stephen M. Cherry
9 Migration: A Theological Vision – Daniel G. Groody
10 The Moral Relevance of Borders: Transcendence and the Ethics of Migration – Benjamin Schewel
Part III Religion and Responses to Migration
11 Taking Responsibility: Sociodicy, Solidarity, and
Religious-Sensitive Policymaking in the Global
Politics of Migration – Erin K. Wilsonand Luca Mavelli
12 Religion, Forced Migration, and Humanitarian Response – Alastair Agerand Joey Ager
Bibliography
Index
Jennifer B. Saunders is an adjunct professor at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. She is revising her book manuscript, Imagining Religious Communities: Transnational Hindus and their Narrative Performances, an ethnographic study of a Hindu family and its social networks in Atlanta, Georgia and Delhi, India. In it, she examines the myriad ways that performances of religious narratives affect communities as they reimagine themselves across national borders. Her current research project investigates the transmission of Hindu devotional songs among middle class women in India and beyond. Saunders is a co-editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s Religion and Global Migration series. As part of the series, she is co-editing Shifts in the Sacred: Crossing Borders in Religion and Global Migrations. She has published articles on transnational Hinduism in a variety of peer-reviewed journals including Religion Compass and Nova Religio. Saunders earned her B.A. in Religion with a Certificate in Asian and African Language and Literature at Duke University, her M.A. in Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Ph.D. in Religion at Emory University. She is co-founder of the American Academy of Religion’s Religion and Migration Group.
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Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is the Co-Director of UCL (University College London)’s Migration Research Unit, and is the Founder and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies Refuge in a Moving World research network across UCL. She is currently the PI of a multi-sited project funded by the European Research Council, South-South Humanitarian Responses to Displacement: Views from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey (Southern Responses website). Between 2016-2021, she was PI of a 4-year AHRC-ESRC funded project, ‘Local Community Experiences of and Responses to Displacement from Syria‘ and between 2017-2020, she was joint PI of a 3-year project funded by the British Council-USA entitled Religion and Social Justice for Refugees. Elena is currently Co-I on the AHRC Network Plus programme, Imagining Futures through [Un]Archived Pasts, where she is jointly leading the Baddawi Camp Lab with Yousif M. Qasmiyeh. Her research examines experiences of and responses to conflict-induced displacement, with a particular focus on diverse forms of Southern-led responses to displacement and a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. She has conducted extensive research in refugee camps and urban areas including in Algeria, Cuba, Egypt, France, Jordan, Lebanon, South Africa, Syria, Sweden, and the UK.
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Susanna Snyder is Academic Dean and Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at Ripon College Cuddesdon, UK. As well as being mum to a four-year daughter and seven-year old son, she is an Anglican priest and has written numerous essays and books on social justice, refugees, migration and theology.
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