Asylum-seeking, migration and church

Main Author: Snyder, Susanna, 1978-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10596968
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene
  • Encountering migrants
  • On the way to a performative and liberatory theology
  • Supporting asylum seekers: church activities and projects
  • Flight and fright: experiences of seeking sanctuary
  • Flight: the global dynamics of migration
  • Fright: the dynamics of fear within established populations
  • Encountering strangers in the Bible
  • Approaching strangers
  • Ecology of fear: Ezra-Nehemiah
  • Ecology of faith: Ruth and the Syro-Phoenician woman
  • Moving our encounters on.