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What happens to the faith and the religious experience of people on the move once they have decided to leave, while they are moving, as their projects and dreams come to fulfillment or as they are reformulated and re-invented? What happens to the actors who interact with migrants and refugees on the pathways of human mobility and in the contexts in which these people find themselves rebuilding their lives in a foreign land? And what about the religions that are transformed because of and thanks the mobility of their members?
These questions and many others related to human mobility and the transformations in religion that these realities and their actors undergo will be the focus of the new book of the Ecumene Series, which will be prepared in 2025 for publication during the first semester of 2026. This is a series of theology on human mobility, produced by the Scalabrinian Center for Migration Studies – CSEM, in partnership with CLAR – Latin American Confederation of Religious, which is published in digital format in Portuguese, Spanish and, as of this year, also in English.
According to the book’s organizers, Roberto Marinucci, missiologist and editor-in-chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Mobility – REMHU, and Jennifer Gómez Torres, a Spanish theologian from the University of Comillas, the aim of the book is to analyze the changes that take place within subjective faith and religious institutions in contexts of the mobility of human beings and religious traditions, by identifying the variables that are involved.
With migrants and refugees go also their religious beliefs and practices. However, what is the impact of the migration process on people’s individual and communal beliefs and practices? Psalm 137 points out: how can one experience faith in a foreign land or, worse still, during the (sometimes very long) “immigration transit” or being “stuck” for months at the border of a foreign country waiting for a visa, without any identity reference?
With this volume, the Ecumene Series reaches out to people committed to human mobility or approaching the subject and people on the move, strengthening and nourishing their faith search and reflection on this context and its challenges, providing more content based on a Christian vision of the phenomena related to human mobility, in the spirit of interculturality, communion in diversity and an outgoing church, ‘where no one is a stranger’.
The previous editions have been published digitally in Spanish and Portuguese, and printed copies are also available in Portuguese (on request to csem@csem.org.br).
2024 – Access here in Portuguese or here in Spanish
2023 – Access here in Portuguese or here in Spanish
2022 – Access here in Portuguese or here in Spanish
2021 – Access here in Portuguese or here in Spanish
