Call for articles for the next volume of the Ecumene Series
What happens to the faith and religious experience of people on the move when they decide to leave, while they are on the move, while their projects and dreams come true or are reformulated and reinvented? What happens to the actors who interact with migrants and refugees on the pathways of human mobility and in the contexts in which these people find themselves rebuilding their lives in foreign lands? And what about the religions that are transformed because of and thanks to the mobility of their members?
These and many other issues related to human mobility and the respective religious transformations that these realities and their actors go through will be the focus of the new volume of the Ecumene Series, which will be prepared in 2025 for publication in the first half of 2026. This is a series on the theology of human mobility, produced by the Scalabrinian Center for Migration Studies - CSEM, in partnership with CLAR - Latin American Confederation of Religious, published in digital format in Portuguese, Spanish and, from this year, also in English.
According to the book's organizers, missiologist and editor-in-chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Mobility - REMHU Roberto Marinucci and Spanish theologian from the University of Comillas, Jennifer Gómez Torres, the aim of the book is to analyze the changes that occur in subjective faith and religious institutions in contexts of mobility of human beings and religious traditions, identifying the variables that are involved.
Migrants and refugees also migrate with their religious beliefs and practices. But what is the impact of the migration process on people's individual and communal beliefs and practices? As Psalm 137 points out, how does one experience one's faith in a foreign land or, even worse, during the (sometimes very long) "migratory transit" or being "stuck" for months at the border of a foreign country waiting for a visa, far from any identity reference?
With this new volume, the Ecumene Series reaches out to people who are committed to the cause of human mobility or who are getting closer to the issue and to people on the move, strengthening and nourishing their search and their faith reflection on this reality and its challenges, bringing more content from a Christian vision of the phenomena related to human mobility, in the mark of interculturality, of communion in diversity and of an outgoing church, 'where no one is a stranger'.
The previous volumes have been published in Spanish and Portuguese in digital versions and printed copies are also available in Portuguese (please contact csem@csem.org.br).
2024 – Access here in Portuguese or here in Spanish
2023 - Access here in Portuguese or here in Spanish
2022 - Access here in Portuguese or here in Spanish
2021 - Access here in Portuguese or here in Spanish