The contested realities of migration in a glocalized world are a challenge to theology. As a sign of the times, migration calls theology into a wider academic discourse and poses two distinct questions:

How can the message of the gospel be brought to the fore in the context of migration? What is the specific contribution of theology in the contested discourses on human mobility?

How does migration bring to the fore the message of the gospel? Which language do migratory experiences provide for theology? How does migration in-form and re-form our way of experiencing, celebrating and conceptualizing God?

The conference tackles these two poles of the mutual hermeneutical process of a theology in the signs of the times in three contexts:

  Emigrating: Leaving one?s country

  Migrating: Travelling the interstices

  Immigrating: Arrival?

In each step, perspectives from the social sciences and from theology are presented and ? in an extended phase of plenary discussion ? are brought into dialogue and analyzed as to their mutual implications, thus bringing an evolving theology of migration further on the way.

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