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Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora: Cross-Border Filipino Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora Cross-Border Filipino Perspectives

Edited By Gemma Tulud Cruz Copyright 2022
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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).

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