The Meaning of My Neighbors Faith: Interreligious Reflections on Immigration [Hardcover]

The Meaning of My Neighbors Faith addresses two of the most critical challenges of our time: immigration and religious diversity. The diverse group of contributors, representing a variety of religious traditions, disciplines, and methodologies, explore the meaning of my neighbors faith in the age of migration. Each author reflects on the meaning of religious traditions in the context of the unprecedented migrations of people who look and believe differently than their hosts. The volume is the work of scholars dedicated to advancing religious understanding of the debate and discussions on immigration in the light of religious diversity in America and other places in the world.

Alexander Y. Hwang is adjunct faculty at Saint Leo University and associate dean of international faculty at the Universit? 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.

The Meaning of My Neighbors Faith: Interreligious Reflections on Immigration, edited by Alexander Hwang and Laura Alexander, offers a refreshing alternative to current rhetoric concerning global issues of immigration. This book is a timely and valuable tool to help move the conversation forward about critical immigration challenges and pluralistic religious issues that are growing concerns for contemporary society. Reading Religion

The Meaning of My Neighbors Faith: Interreligious Reflections on Immigration offers an original and insightful set of reflections on immigration, forced and chosen, as a defining feature of todays 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 religiousl³>