Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora Cross-Border Filipino Perspectives

This book focuses on the Philippines as a powerhouse in the Catholic and global migration landscape. It offers a wide-ranging look at the roles, dynamics, character, and trajectories of Catholic faith and practice in the age of migration through an interdisciplinary, religious, and theological approach to Filipino Catholics’ experience of migration and diaspora both at home and overseas. In so doing, the book introduces the reader to the hallmarks and characteristics of a contextual model of world Christianity and global Catholicism in the twenty-first century.

Introduction Gemma Tulud Cruz Part 1 Culture and Religious Experience 1 Looking for God in the Complexities of Filipino Migration and Diaspora: Theology and Filipino Cultural Identities in a Globalized World Julius-Kei Kato 2 Toward Sambayanihan in Europe: A Filipino Ecclesiology of Migration Rowan Lopez Rebustillo 3 Popular Piety in Migrant Journeys toward Redemption Norlan H. Julia 4 What I Have Seen and Heard: The Gifts of Filipino Catholics to the US Catholic Church Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos 5 Faith on the Move: Religious Conversion among Filipino Migrants in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and the USA Vivienne S.M. Angeles Part 2 Political Economy and Social Ethics 6 Migrant Remittances, Development, and Catholic Social Teaching Alellie B. Sobreviñas and Gemma Tulud Cruz 7 Migration with Dignity and Climate Justice: Haiyan, Climate Change, and Displacement Ma. Christina Astorga 8 The Ties that Unbind: Filipino Female Transmigration and the Left-Behind Family as Domestic Church of the Poor through the Lens of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences Maria Elisa A. Borja 9 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Filipinas in International Marriage Migration Gemma Tulud Cruz 10 Cosmopolitanism and Filipinx Crossing Borders: Agency Faces Ethnic and Gender Profiling Jose Mario C. Francisco Part 3 Mission and Ministry 11 Home and Away: The Philippine Catholic Church’s Local and Global Migrant Ministry Edwin Corros 12 Catholicism across the Seas: Faith and Pastoral Care among Filipino Seafarers Myrna Tordillo 13 Ginhawa: In Pursuit of Immigrant Life in Abundance Faustino M. Cruz 14 Overseas Filipino Workers and Missionary Discipleship: Rethinking missio ad gentes in the Context of the Filipino Diaspora Andrew Gimenez Recepción

Gemma Tulud Cruz is Senior Lecturer in Theology and a member of the Institute of Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University. She is author of numerous publications on migration theologies including Christianity Across Borders: Theology and Contemporary Issues in Global Migration (Routledge, 2021).