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A Pilgrim People: Essays on the Church in an Age of Global Migration

In the early months of the new administration, a federal appeals panel ruled against reinstating President Donald Trump’s travel ban, widely criticized as targeting Muslims and more broadly preventing already vetted refugees from entering the United States. Alongside the judiciary’s ruling, protestors gathered at airports and resettlement agencies, and immigration attorneys, university administrators, and tech firms have taken to airwaves, op-eds, and grassroots engagement to decry and work against the ban. Yet, for many immigrant and refugee communities spanning the globe, such precarity defines the realities of migrant life. The edited volume Church in an Age of Global Migration: A Moving Body invites scholars, practitioners, ecclesial leaders, community activists, and pastors to turn their attention to the theological, ecclesial, and pastoral possibilities born of migrant lived realities. In his 1978 study of early twentieth-century American immigrant communities, historian Timothy L. Smith asserted that ethnic consolidation among European immigrants correlated with religious affiliation. Challenging more static notions of religion, and more secular fixations on nationality and ethnicity, Smith further asserted that as immigrants navigated cultural and social changes, they theologized their way into and through their new context. In other words, they brought their theological categories and ritual practices to bear upon questions of identity, behavior, belonging, and envisaging a new future. In his 1980