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“Migration is a subject that cries out for an interdisciplinary approach.” So declare Caroline B. Brettell and James F. Hollifield in the preface to their edited volume on migration theory.1 In an effort to “reboot” migration theory through “interdisciplinarity, globality, and postdisciplinarity,” they have assembled a team of specialists in anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, history, demographics, political science, and law to investigate the phenomenon of international migration. Conspicuously absent in this “talking across disciplines” on migration is religious studies/theology—an absence all the more poignant as both editors are professors at a Christian university with a large divinity school.
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Caroline B. Brettell and James F. Hollifield, eds., Migration Theory: Talking across Disciplines, 2nd edition (New York: Routledge, 2007), viii. Brettell is the Dedman Family Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and Hollifield is the Arnold Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University. The divinity school at Southern Methodist University is Perkins School of Theology.
The literature on religion and migration is burgeoning. Suffice it to cite here three works on immigration and the US religious situation: Diana Eck, A New Religious America: How a ‘Christian Country’ Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2002)
Karen I. Leonard, Alex Stepick, Manuel A. Vasquez, and Jennifer Holdaway, eds., Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America (New York: Roman & Littlefield, 2006)
and Yvonne Yazbeck Hassad, Jane L. Smith, and John L. Esposito, eds., Religion and Immigration: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
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Padilla, E., Phan, P.C. (2014). Introduction: Migration in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In: Padilla, E., Phan, P.C. (eds) Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions. Palgrave Macmillan’s Christianities of the World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001047_1
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