La migración en todas sus manifestaciones es un fenómeno histórico y social cada vez más complejo para su comprensión. La diversidad de enfoques y paradigmas teóricos, abordajes metodológicos, temáticas indagadas, peculiaridades temporales y espaciales dan cuenta de su enorme vitalidad como campo de conocimiento. La realidad que corre con múltiples escenarios y signos de este fenómeno amerita una perspicacia que sea capaz de captar la migración en toda su dinámica, propiciando un escenario de mayor amplitud heurística. Dicho lo anterior y debido a la impronta de la migración y los migrantes en el mundo, la presente obra se inscribe en la línea de investigación sobre “Retos, impactos y representaciones de la migración humana en su andar colectivo e individual” que hemos gestado en la Universidad de Guanajuato y bajo la cual hemos puesto en discusión temas muy sensibles que han estado en la palestra y en la coyuntura: pandemia, desplazamientos forzados, migración de tránsito, retorno, inseguridad, cambio climático, conflictos bélicos, ex braseros, adultos mayores, movilidad social, todos los cuales visibilizan e imponen agendas de trabajo académico para entenderlos en su dimensión social e histórica. La justificación salta a la vista. La necesidad de discutir algunos de estos temas, y de la migración en sí, impulsó la presente obra para comprender el estado actual de los estudios migratorios. Así, la obra que el lector tiene en sus manos es el resultado de un trabajo colectivo desarrollado por los autores aquí presentes, con el fin de contribuir en la crítica y reflexión que los procesos migratorios poseen en los contextos locales y globales, cuyo abordaje y estudio debe ser realizado desde una multiplicidad de miradas y sentidos. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52501/cc.121

Bridging the fields of Religion and Latina/o Studies, this book fills a gap by examining the “spiritual” rhetoric and practices of the Chicano movement. Bringing new theoretical life to biblical studies and Chicana/o writings from the 1960s, such as El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán and El Plan de Santa Barbara, Jacqueline M. Hidalgo boldly makes the case that peoples, for whom historical memories of displacement loom large, engage scriptures in order to make and contest homes. Movement literature drew upon and defied the scriptural legacies of Revelation, a Christian scriptural text that also carries a displaced homing dream. Through the slipperiness of utopian imaginations, these texts become places of belonging for those whose belonging has otherwise been questioned. Hidalgo’s elegant comparative study articulates as never before how Aztlán and the new Jerusalem’s imaginative power rest in their ambiguities, their ambivalence, and the significance that people ascribe to them.

The links between religion and food have been known for centuries, and yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of the relationship between food and spirituality, or food and sin. Drawing on literature, politics, and philosophy as well as theology, this book unlocks the role food has played within religious tradition. A fascinating book tracing the centuries-old links between theology and food, showing religion in a new and intriguing light Draws on examples from different religions: the significance of the apple in the Christian Bible and the eating of bread as the body of Christ; the eating and fasting around Ramadan for Muslims; and how the dietary laws of Judaism are designed to create an awareness of living in the time and space of the Torah Explores ideas from the fields of literature, politics, and philosophy, as well as theology Takes seriously the idea that food matters, and that the many aspects of eating – table fellowship, culinary traditions, the aesthetic, ethical and political dimensions of food – are important and complex, and throw light on both religion and our relationship to food

An edited group of 21 papers on urban change; in addition, the author contributed the four initial chapters on theoretical methods. The remaining papers consider factors of urban change, mostly for the latter part of the 20th century, for countries in Europe, the Americas, South Africa, and Asia. Themes include migration, population change, and the impact of political change. The international group of contributors is made up of academics in geography, urban and regional planning, and demography.

Two aspects are fundamental to Hispanic/Latina theology: rich diversity and a collaborative spirit. In this groundbreaking book, Hispanic scholars come together to create a theology drawn from the collaboration of Latino and Latina Protestants in North America. The authors discuss a range of topics--God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the importance of scripture, the church, humanity, the doctrine of sin, spirituality--and the challenges facing Hispanic/Latina Protestant theology.

On congregational care, religious education, theological education, clinical pastoral education and church consultation.