Download PDF: Cho, Issue 11 Intro Practical Matters is proud to publish Issue 11: Migrations and Religious Practices. Our hope was to bring together scholars and practitioners to critically reflect on the intersection of human migration, religion, and identity. As the
Download PDF: Mingo, Making Lemonade with Substitute Sugar Abstract Using displacement data and oral histories that I began collecting after the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this paper analyzes the experiences of families who made the small college town of
Download PDF: Kalkun Kupari Vuola Coping With Loss Abstract In this article, we focus on the coping, healing, and commemorative aspects of religious rituals, discussing three annual religious feasts that also have significance as expressions of ethnic culture. They are
Download PDF: Park, Encountering Others Through Compassion Abstract The purpose of this article is to propose a pedagogy of compassion based on a reinterpretation of historical and contemporary understandings of compassion and on critical dialogues between three education philosophers
Download PDF: Joseph, Decentered Vision of Diaspora Space Abstract In this article, I examine the decentered vision of diaspora space that emerges from the encounters with difference present in theological ethnography, the migrant experience, and the pilgrim Church. I first
Download PDF: Kim-Cragg, Kim-Cragg, A Postcolonial Portrait of Migrants Abstract This article identifies migration as an urgent matter for practical theology. The author, locating herself as a Canadian migrant and a Christian practical theologian, invites readers to take the global
Download PDF: Reyes, Practical Theology as Knowledge of Origin and Migration Abstract In an exploration of immigration and faith, this essay argues for a practical theology that privileges narrative and storytelling. The essay responds to the political landscape in the