1st Edition
Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora Cross-Border Filipino Perspectives
This book focuses on the Philippines as a powerhouse in the Catholic and global migration landscape. It offers a wide-ranging look at the roles, dynamics, character, and trajectories of Catholic faith and practice in the age of migration through an interdisciplinary, religious, and theological approach to Filipino Catholics’ experience of migration and diaspora both at home and overseas. In so doing, the book introduces the reader to the hallmarks and characteristics of a contextual model of world Christianity and global Catholicism in the twenty-first century.
Introduction
Gemma Tulud Cruz
Part 1 Culture and Religious Experience
1 Looking for God in the Complexities of Filipino Migration and Diaspora: Theology and Filipino Cultural Identities in a Globalized World
Julius-Kei Kato
2 Toward Sambayanihan in Europe: A Filipino Ecclesiology of Migration
Rowan Lopez Rebustillo
3 Popular Piety in Migrant Journeys toward Redemption
Norlan H. Julia
4 What I Have Seen and Heard: The Gifts of Filipino Catholics to the US Catholic Church
Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos
5 Faith on the Move: Religious Conversion among Filipino Migrants in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and the USA
Vivienne S.M. Angeles
Part 2 Political Economy and Social Ethics
6 Migrant Remittances, Development, and Catholic Social Teaching
Alellie B. Sobreviñas and Gemma Tulud Cruz
7 Migration with Dignity and Climate Justice: Haiyan, Climate Change, and Displacement
Ma. Christina Astorga
8 The Ties that Unbind: Filipino Female Transmigration and the Left-Behind Family as Domestic Church of the Poor through the Lens of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences
Maria Elisa A. Borja
9 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Filipinas in International Marriage Migration
Gemma Tulud Cruz
10 Cosmopolitanism and Filipinx Crossing Borders: Agency Faces Ethnic and Gender Profiling
Jose Mario C. Francisco
Part 3 Mission and Ministry
11 Home and Away: The Philippine Catholic Church’s Local and Global Migrant Ministry
Edwin Corros
12 Catholicism across the Seas: Faith and Pastoral Care among Filipino Seafarers
Myrna Tordillo
13 Ginhawa: In Pursuit of Immigrant Life in Abundance
Faustino M. Cruz
14 Overseas Filipino Workers and Missionary Discipleship: Rethinking missio ad gentes in the Context of the Filipino Diaspora
Andrew Gimenez Recepción
Biography
Gemma Tulud Cruz is Senior Lecturer in Theology and a member of the Institute of Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University. She is author of numerous publications on migration theologies including Christianity Across Borders: Theology and Contemporary Issues in Global Migration (Routledge, 2021).
