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Book SynopsisLos Angeles is a global crossroads of migrating communities that presents a case study of migration, transnationalism, and interfaith engagement with significant implications for thinking and practice in other global hubs. This book weaves together contributions from a group of internationally-recognized scholars who were brought together for the 2020 Missiology Lectures at Fuller Theological Seminary, which received funding from the Luce Foundation. They examine historical waves of migration — European Protestant, Asian, Latino/a, and Muslim — into Southern California and use sociological, missiological, and theological methods to understand the experience of migration and its effects, both on those who move and those who are already there. The result shows how migrants are inspired and sustained by faith and spiritual resources; how migration challenges faith communities about their identity and attitudes to others; how faith communities in turn impact the migration landscape through immigrant integration and public advocacy, and how migration forges new transnational and global ways of being in community and innovative religious movements. The contributors put forward a mission theology of migration and suggest mission practices in response to the suffering caused by forced migration and the injustices of immigration systems.
Table of Contents1.Los Angeles as an Intersection: Questions of Mobility, Power, and Race in Southern California
Kirsteen Kim
2.City of Dreams: Los Angeles as a Cradle for Religious Activism, Innovation, and Diversity
Richard Flory
3.Errands in the Wilderness: Protestant Migrations and the (Re)Evangelization of Southern California in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Darren Dochuk
4.Mexican Americans and the Southern Errand
Robert Chao Romero
5.Missiological Reflections on the “In-Betweenness” of Latino Protestantism
Juan F. Martínez
6.Making their Mark: Asian Americans and the Californian “Christian” Landscape
Rebecca Y. Kim
7.Faith Resources: Muslim Migration to Los Angeles
Zayn Kassam
8.Borders: Citizenship in California
Jason Sexton
9.Catholicity: Migration, Religion, and World Christianity
Gioacchino Campese
10.Theological Approaches to Migration: Their Impact on Missional Thinking and Action
Leopoldo A. Sánchez M.
11.For Such a Time as This: Ministering with and Advocating for Migrants
Alexia Salvatierra
