Migration, Transnationalism, and Faith in Missiological Perspective

Kirsteen Kim; Alexia Salvatierra

doi:10.5771/9781978713758

Summary

Los Angeles is a global crossroads of migrating communities that presents a case study of migration, transnationalism, and interfaith engagement with significant implications for thinking and practice in other global hubs. This book weaves together contributions from internationally-recognized scholars who were brought together for the 2020 Missiology Lectures at Fuller Theological Seminary. They examine historical waves of migration — European Protestant, Asian, Latino/a, and Muslim — into Southern California and use sociological, missiological, and theological methods to understand the experience of migration and its effects, both on those who move and those who are already there. The result shows how migrants are inspired and sustained by faith and spiritual resources; how migration challenges faith communities about their identity and attitudes to others; how faith communities in turn impact the migration landscape through immigrant integration and public advocacy, and how migration forges new transnational and global ways of being in community and innovative religious movements. The contributors put forward a mission theology of migration and suggest mission practices in response to the suffering caused by forced migration and the injustices of immigration systems.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1374-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1375-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 214
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Tables No access
3. 1. Note No access
4. 1. Notes No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Migration from a Religious Point of View No access
3. Migration in Missiological Perspective No access
4. Migration In and Out of Los Angeles No access
5. Mobility, Power, and Race in California No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Defining Los Angeles No access
3. Culture No access
4. Geography and Diversity No access
5. Interpreting Los Angeles No access
6. Religion in and out of Los Angeles No access
7. 1. Starting Over No access
  2. Culture Creators No access
  3. Migration and Immigration No access
  4. Pluralism and Tolerance No access
  5. Climate and Physical Environment No access
8. 1. Aimee Semple McPherson No access
  2. Robert Schuller No access
  3. Chuck Smith No access
  4. Rick Warren No access
  5. Matthew Barnett No access
9. 1. Religious Behavior Index No access
  2. God and Bible Index No access
  3. Heaven and Hell Index No access
  4. Social Attitudes Index No access
10. Conclusion No access
11. Notes No access
12. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Wartime Booms: The Southernization of Southern California Religion No access
3. World Visions: The Reorientation of Southern California Protestantism No access
4. Integral Mission: Global Turns in Southern California Protestantism No access
5. The Emergent Church: Southern California Protestantism’s New Errand No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The Great Mexican Migration and Latino Segregation No access
3. Prophetic Responses of Latino Pentecostals No access
4. Conclusion: The Brown Church, Then and Now No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. An In-Between Relationship with the United States No access
3. An In-Between Identity No access
4. An In-Between Christian Faith No access
5. Living an In-Between Life in the United States No access
6. Mañana—A Way of Being a Faithful Believer in an In-Between Place No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. A History of Exclusion No access
3. California No access
4. Post-1965 Asian Christian America No access
5. 1. Changing the Landscape No access
  2. Asian Americans’ Religious Vitality No access
  3. Asian American Evangelicals on College Campuses No access
6. 1. Korean Missionaries in America No access
7. Toward an Asian American Evangelical Christianity No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Notes No access
10. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Race in America and the Racialization of Muslims No access
3. Migrant and Refugee Policies No access
4. Faith-Based and Civil Society Efforts in Claremont and Pomona, California No access
5. Building a Stronger Civil Society through Pluralism No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Locating California’s Geographical Borders and People No access
2. Welcome to L.A. No access
3. Where You Are: Tongva Land No access
4. A Geographical Violation No access
5. On Borders and Barriers No access
6. Citizenship in the City of Angels No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Pope Francis as a Bridge Builder No access
3. Migration No access
4. Religion No access
5. World Christianity No access
6. Toward Catholicity: “Culture of Encounter” and Synodality No access
7. Conclusion . . . Kicked by the Spirit No access
8. Notes No access
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1. Introduction No access
2. The Hospitality Model No access
3. The Legal Model No access
4. The Relational Model No access
5. The Vocational Approach No access
6. Conclusion: Toward an Eclectic, Rhetorical Approach No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Colloquium No access
2. The Scriptural and Theological Basis for Response No access
3. Migrant Faith Communities No access
4. Los Angeles, the Global Crossroad No access
Index No access Pages 203 - 210
Contributors No access Pages 211 - 214