Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora

<p>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.</p> <p>Introduction, <b>Part 1. Culture and Religious Experience, </b>1. Looking for God in the Complexities of Filipino Migration and Diaspora: Theology and Filipino Cultural Identities in a Globalized World, 2. Toward <i>Sambayanihan</i> 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, <b>Part 2. Political Economy and Social Ethics, </b>6. Migrant Remittances, Development, and Catholic Social Teaching, 7. Migration with Dignity and Climate Justice: <i>Haiyan</i>, 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, <b>Part 3. Mission and Ministry, </b>11. Home and Away: The Philippine Catholic Church’s Local and Global Migrant Ministry, 12. Catholicism across the Seas: Faith and Pastoral Care among Filipino Seafarers, 13. <i>Ginhawa</i>: In Pursuit of Immigrant Life in Abundance, 14. Overseas Filipino Workers and Missionary Discipleship: Rethinking <i>missio ad gentes</i> in the Context of the Filipino Diaspora</p>