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Author:   Peter C. Phan (, Georgetown University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.794kg
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9780190082277

ISBN 10:   0190082275
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   07 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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PART I. MIGRATION AND RELIGION: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXTS CHAPTER 1: CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY IN THE AGE OF MIGRATION CHAPTER 2: HUMAN MOBILITY AND GLOBAL MIGRATIONS: Migration as a Permanent Feature of Being Human CHAPTER 3: CATEGORIES OF MIGRATION AND TYPES OF MIGRANTS: The Complex Reality of Contemporary Migration CHAPTER 4: RELIGION(S) AND MIGRATION: How Religions Induce Migration and How Migration Transforms Religions CHAPTER 5: MIGRATION AND THE SHAPING OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY: How Migration Transformed Christianity into a Global Religion PART II. A CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY OF MIGRATION CHAPTER 6: GOD THE FATHER, THE PRIMORDIAL MIGRANT: Deus Migrator, the Beginning and the End of Migration CHAPTER 7: A Christology for Our Age of Migration Chapter 8: The Holy Spirit, the Power of Migration: The Agency of Migrants Chapter 9: Christianity as an Institutional Migrant: A Church Existing in the Interstices Chapter 10: Worship and Popular Devotions: Sacramental and Devotional Life of Migrants CHAPTER 11: THE ETHICS OF MUTUAL HOSPITALITY: Migrants as Guests and Hosts CHAPTER 12: HOME LAND, FOREIGN LAND, OUR LAND: A Christian Theology of Place in Migration Chapter 13: MIGRATION AND MEMORY: The Moral Obligation to Remember CHAPTER 14: EPILOGUE: PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: Migration and Eschatology

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Peter C. Phan is the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University. His research deals with the theology of the icon in Orthodox theology, patristic theology, eschatology, the history of Christian missions in Asia, liberation, inculturation, and interreligious dialogue. He is the author and editor of over 40 books and has published over 300 essays. He is the first non-Anglo to be elected President of the Catholic Theological Society of America and President of the American Theological Society, and in 2010 he received the John Courtney Murray Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Catholic Theological Society of America for outstanding achievement in theology.

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