Strangers in This World : Multireligious Reflections on Immigration /

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Immigration is one of the most hotly debated topics today. But, the question involves more than politics and emotion; it includes such critical issues as law, justice, human rights, human dignity, and freedom. Strangers in This World is a collection that brings together an international consortium o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hwang, Alexander Y. (Editor ), Timani, Hussam S. (Editor ), Jorgenson, Allen G. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Immigrants > Religious life.
Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Alexander Y. Hwang
  • Introduction
  • part I. Hindu and Buddhist perspectives and encounters
  • 1. Migration and spiritual conquest : emplacing contemporary comparative theology in a Hindu theology of the "quarters" (dik) / Reid B. Locklin
  • 2. Seeking the "farther shore" : Buddhism as spiritual immigration / John Thompson
  • 3. Choices and challenges : the North American Buddhist immigrant experience / Karma Lekshe Tsomo
  • 4. Missionaries and immigrants, missionaries as immigrants / Jonathan A. Seitz
  • part II. Abrahamic tradition
  • 5. Singing the songs of the Lord in a strange land : forced exile versus chosen exile in early Jewish history / Daniel Maoz
  • 6. Immigration theology in Islam / Muhammad Shafiq
  • 7. The Islamic doctrine of hijra (migration) : theological implications / Hussam S. Timani
  • 8. Gothic "immigrants" in the Roman Empire / Craig R. Davis
  • 9. White Protestant efforts to convert Italian immigrants : the case of Constantine Panunzio / Linda Mercadante
  • 10. Journeying before God with a divided heart : theological virtues in light of the postcolonial migrations of Latvian Lutherans / Kristine Suna-Koro
  • part III. First Americans and first immigrants
  • 11. Native American hospitality and generosity : old symbols of American welcome / Randy Woodley
  • 12. A shared narrative / Ray Aldred
  • 13. Immigration : from borders to boundaries under First Nations tutelage / Allen G. Jorgenson
  • Part IV. Current immigration issues
  • 14. Lutheran thought, civil disobedience, and the new sanctuary movement / Laura E. Alexander
  • 15. The morning after : the role of faith-based groups post-immigration reform / Alan A. Aja
  • 16. Blending past and future : how Whitehead's metaphysics speaks to immigration reform / Joseph A. Bracken and Marc A. Pugliese
  • 17. Immigration as/and mental illness : more than metaphor / Ronald W. Baard
  • Afterword : a world strangely new, as old as history / Francis X. Clooney, SJ.

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