Religion and Migration

Negotiating Hospitality, Agency and Vulnerability

edited by Andrea Bieler, Isolde Karle, HyeRan Kim-Cragg and Ilona Nord

Book cover: Religion and Migration

Extent: 264 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: Religious Studies, Social Sciences 

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(October 2019)

ISBN: 9783374061310

Price: $49.00

In stock

This volume explores religious discourses and practices of hospitality in the context of migration. It articulates the implied ambivalences and even contradictions as well as the potential to contribute to a more just world through social interconnection with others. The book features contributors from diverse national, denominational, cultural, and racial backgrounds. Their essays reveal a dichotomy of hospitality between guest and host, while tackling the meaning of home or the loss of it, interrogating both the peril and promise of the relationship between religion, chiefly Christianity, and hospitality, and focusing on the role of migrants’ vulnerability and agency, by drawing from empirical, theological, sociological and anthropological insights emerged from postcolonial migration contexts. With contributions by Andrea Bieler, Jione Havea, Claudia Hoffmann, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Claudia Jahnel, Isolde Karle, Buhle Mpofu, Armin Nassehi, Ilona Nord, Henrietta Nyamnjoh, Regina Polak, Ludger Pries, Thomas Reynolds, Harsha Walia, Jula Well, and Birgit Weyel.

  • Edited by Andrea Bieler
  • Edited by Isolde Karle
  • Edited by HyeRan Kim-Cragg
  • Edited by Ilona Nord