Table of Contents

Chapter 1 “Islamic Creation Theology and the Human Being as Migrant”
Zeyneb Sayilgan
Chapter 2 “Interreligious Responses to the Settlement House Movement, 188 –924”
Anne Blankenship
Chapter 3 “From the American Protective Association to Trump’s America First: American Xenophobia in Historical Perspective”
James McBride
Chapter 4 “Geohistory and Genomics: Implications for the Doctrine of Revelation”
Ron Choong
Chapter 5 “The Divine Principle: Moon’s Prescription for Restoring America and the World Compared with Swami Prabhupada’s Approach”
Dawn Hutchinson

Section 2. Perceptions of Immigrants

Chapter 6 “Immigrants as Terra Nullius: On the Need for a Comparative Theology of Decolonization”
Allen G. Jorgenson
Chapter 7 “The Christian Criteria for Assimilation: Racially Reading Christianity, Civility, and Social Belonging in the Modern Western World”
Jessica Wai-Fong Wong
Chapter 8 “Migration and Interfaith Pedagogy: Crossing the Borders of Classrooms, Cultures, and Religions”
Kristine Suna-Koro
Chapter 9 “The Great Exchange: An Interfaith Praxis of Absolute Hospitality for Asylum Seekers”
Helen Boursier
Chapter 10 “Hafu or Dabaru? An Inter-religious Analysis of Migration and Japanese Cultural Identity”
Loye Sekihata Ashton

Section 3. Ethical, Political and Legal Perspectives

Chapter 11 “The Moral Relevance of Borders: Transcendence and the Ethics of Migration”
Benjamin Schewel
Chapter 12 “Immigration and the Theological Problem of Sovereignty: Catholic Social Teaching, Carl Schmitt, and the Theopolitical Foundations of the Modern State”
Matt R. Jantzen
Chapter 13 “Religious Kinesis: A Challenge to the Plenary Power Doctrine’s Anthropology of Stasis”
Silas W. Allard
Chapter 14 “Majority Church and Immigration: A Norwegian Case Study”
Kjetil Fretheim
Chapter 15 “The Global Refugee Crisis and Religious Ethics: Questions to Ask”
Laura E. Alexander

Section 4: My Neighbor’s Faith and Mine

Chapter 16 “On Being a Muslim in a Non-Islamic Society: Seeing Islam in the ‘Other’”
Hussam S. Timani
Chapter 17 “Immigration and Ecclesial Receptivity: Congar and Rahner as Resources for an Ecumenical and Philoxenical Ecclesiology of Reception”
Michael M. Canaris
Chapter 18 “Who is My Neighbor to Me: An Augustinian Reflection”
Alexander Y. Hwang
Chapter 19 “An Evangelical Reflection on My Non-Christian Neighbor”
Ken Fong
Chapter 20 “European Immigration to America: Dislocation and Responses”
Dan Campana
Chapter 21 “A Jewish Problematization of My Neighbor’s Faith”
Daniel Maoz
Chapter 22 “‘Becoming American’: Muslim Neighbors Embracing a Judeo-Christian Country”
Zahra Jamal

About the Author

Alexander Y. Hwang is adjunct faculty at Saint Leo University and associate dean of international faculty at the Université Protestante au Coeur du Congo.

Laura E. Alexander is assistant professor of religious studies and holds the Goldstein Family Community Chair of Human Rights at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Reviews

The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith: Interreligious Reflections on Immigration offers an original and insightful set of reflections on immigration, forced and chosen, as a defining feature of today’s society and of human self-understanding in communities large and small. Faiths old and new are respected and listened to in these pages, brought to life in a multidimensional way well-fitted to our times. Deeply imbued with interreligious sensitivities, the contributors offer social and political, cultural and religious insights that illumine the realities and significance of immigration for all wishing to understand how we live and shape human and religious communities today.
*Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University*