Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-285) and index.
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.
Series:
Explorations in practical, pastoral and empirical theology
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