Christianity Across Borders

Gemma Tulud Cruz is Senior Lecturer in Theology and member of the Institute of Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. She is author of numerous publications on migration theologies, including Toward an Intercultural Theology of Migration: Pilgrims in the Wilderness and Toward a Theology of Migration: Social Justice and Religious Experience.

Introduction; PART I: Politics of marginality and identity; 1 Resident alien: Home in the age of migration; 2 Bonding and bridging: Christianity as lived religion among African and Asian migrants in the Global North; 3 Liberating faith: Popular religiosity and power among Latinx migrants in the United States; 4 Portable homeland: Transnationalism among Catholics; 5 Toward an intercultural feminist theology: Cross-border feminist scholarship and activism; 6 Toward healing: Climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, and migration; PART II: Special populations; 7 Reimagining the moral economy of kinship: The family and global migration; 8 A good woman, a true marriage?: Cross-border marriage migrants and gender; 9 Witness as withness: Underclass migrant workers and pastoral ministry by the Churches; 10 Toward just and inclusive communities: "Undesirable aliens" and Christian mission in the context of the European migrant and refugee crisis of 2015 and its aftermath; 11 "Disposable people": Trafficked persons and Christian vulnerability; 12 Shining a light on hope: Immigration advocates and humanitarian workers through the lens of migrant resilience