Theologies on the Move: Religion, Migration, and Pilgrimage in the World of Neoliberal Capital (Decolonizing Theology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 197870710X ISBN 13: 9781978707108

Publisher: Fortress Academic, 2022

Synopsis

Theologies on the Move: Religion, Migration, and Pilgrimage in the World of Neoliberal Capital speaks to the reality that many religions have developed in motion, with people exploring new boundaries, migrating, and being displaced. Consequently, major religious traditions form as they come into contact with other religions and cultures, typically in situations of struggle and pressure. Due to neoliberal capitalism, more people are on the move today than ever before. Most are driven by necessity (migration due to violence, poverty, and perceived poverty); others, by religious quests that are often fueled by experiences of tension (pilgrimage). The chapters in this volume explore the complexity of these situations, examining in detail how theology and religion shape up in various contexts “on the move” and investigating specific problems and tensions in order to suggest solutions, alternatives, and new possibilities.

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About the Author

Joerg Rieger is distinguished professor of theology and holds the Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair in Wesleyan Studies in the Divinity School and the Graduate Program of Religion at Vanderbilt University. He is also the founding director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt. He is the author of Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity (2022). Terra Schwerin Rowe is associate professor in the philosophy and religion department at the University of North Texas. She is co-director of the AAR seminar, Energy, Extraction, and Religion, on the steering committee of the academy’s Religion and Ecology unit, and a member of the Petrocultures Research Group. She is author of Toward a Better Worldliness: Economy, Ecology, and the Protestant Tradition (2017) and Of Modern Extraction: Experiments in Critical Petro-theology (2023).

Edition details

• Publisher: Fortress Academic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 197870710X
• ISBN 13: 9781978707108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205
• Editor: Rieger Joerg