Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration and Community
Editor: Lia D. Shimada
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Print Length: 288 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Sociology, Migration & Refugee Studies, Religious Studies
Area: London, The United Kingdom (UK)
People: Christian, Muslim, Jews, Filipino, Somali
Topic: Religion, Theology, Migration, Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Exile & Exodus, Diaspora, Community, Community Development, Development, Peace, Change, Borders, Ethics & Morality, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Lived Experience, Policy & Practice, Good/Best Practice, Diversity, Culture & Society, Interfaith, Interconnectedness, Age and Generation, Dialogue, Testimonies, Tolerance, Resilience, Art & Design, Visual, Poetry, Museum & Heritage, Cartography, Scholarship & Knowledge, Creativity, The Notion of Home; Memory, Remembering and Forgetting
This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities – and vice versa – through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of ‘ministry’ and artistic response. The contributors comprise writers, poets and artists from the three largest Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and beyond. They show how issues of migration are addressed through a variety of different media such as theological debate and shared community action, poetry and art.
As issues of migration are an important factor in so many political and social debates, faith communities are looking for guidance on how to deepen their theological understanding of migration. This book helps them to reflect on their own practices and experiences, learn from their own traditions and engage in dialogue with diverse communities.
Table of Contents
Introduction — Lia Dong Shimada
PART 1: FAITH ENCOUNTERS
1. 35 Chapel Walk: Art, Community, Encounter — Faiza Omar and Ric Stott
2. Radical Jewish Welcome: A Reflection on Shelter, Sukkot and Calais — Oliver Spike Joseph
3. The ‘God Squad’: Multi-Faith Chaplaincy in Canary Wharf — Ibrahim Mogra
4. Interfaith, Interchurch, InterTidal: A Jew(ish) Tribute to Resilience — Katy Radford
5. Beauty for Ashes and the Oil of Gladness: God in Exile, Asylum Seekers and the Journey to Hope — Julie Khovacs and Ivan Khovacs
6. My ‘Migration to Migration’ in Orthodox Judaism — David Mason
7. Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Encounters with a Christian Miniter — Hassan Rabbani
8. Mapping Theology (with images) — Katherine Baxter
9. Call and Response (poetry) — Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé
10. Poetry — Yvonne Green
PART 2: SACRED TEXTS
11. Scriptural Reasoning — Rachel Godfrey
12. Translation and Re-Centring ‘A’isha in the Hadith Canon — Sofia Rehman
13. Difference without Domination: Listening for Religious Attunement in Times of Polarization — Michael Nausner
14. Wandering Jews: Mobilizing Exile to Create Communities and Change — Robyn Ashworth-Steen
15. Welcoming Refugees: The Canaanite Woman and Breaking Down Borders — Sheila Curran
16. Prophetic Narratives of Migration and Resilience — Sayed Razawi
17. What is a Refuge for Migrant Women?: Testimony, Witness-Bearing and ‘The Rape of Tamar’ — Alison Phipps
18. Taking the Talmud for a Walk (with images) — Jacqueline Nicholls
19. The Language of Shame (poetry) — Aviva Dautch
20. Poetry — Pádraig Ó Tuama
PART 3: DIASPORA
21. Keeping Faith in the Diaspora: The story of Tumelo’s Three Congregations — Harvey Kwiyani
22. ‘Muhajir’: A Personal Journey of Art, Faith and Museum Objects — Hajra Williams
23. The Montefiore Letters: Migrations of Jews to the Holy Land in the Early 19th Century — Sally Style
24. Far from Home: Faith, Fellowship and Filipino Community — Filipino Community in Harmony, Action, Mobilization and Prayer
25. Somali and New Scot: Faith, Migration and Community — Mohamed Omar
26. Home is Exile and Exile is Home — Jennifer Langer
27. Memory, Multiplicity, Home (with images) — Issam Kourbaj
28. The Threads of Faith (poetry): Reflections on Academic Research, Faith and Creativity — Nazneen Ahmed
29. Poetry — Amir Darwish
Continuing the Conversation
List of Contributors
Lia D. Shimada is a a conflict mediator, a theologian and a geographer. She’s used these wide-ranging trainings to work at the interface of migration, ethnicity, change, religion and conflict. She is senior research fellow for the Susanna Wesley Foundation, based at the University of Roehampton. She was awarded a PhD in geography from University College London in 2010 and a Masters degree in theology and religious studies from King’s College London in 2014. Lia is a mediator and facilitator specialising in diversity outreach, racism and organisational practice.
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