Mission and Migration
Epistemological Tension in Two Research Fields
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3565795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Astrid Krabbe Trolle (0009-0008-4654-9580, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 587 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel16050587 |
| OpenAlex | W4410033552 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
In this article, I argue that the research fields of migration and mission navigate similar tensions between normative interests and descriptive categories. With its biblical legacy, mission is actualized in a variety of ways within the contemporary paradigm of mission everywhere and for every Christian. In the field of mission, a history of colonialization and de-colonialization has resulted in disciplinary struggles over the content and inclusiveness of mission as a scientific category. In the field of migration, political interests related to nation-state regimes often influence research, resulting in several migration scholars pushing back and placing their analytical object-the migrant-as a suffering subject in need of protection. However, tensions between the notions of prescriptive/descriptive and political/ethical produce interesting concepts, and one of them is reverse mission. Applying reverse mission to the case study of the Catholic Church in the Philippines and Denmark, I conclude that different forms of mission (missionary discipleship and domestic mission) are a powerful leit motif for global church work
Discipline · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Field research · Normative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Christian Theology and Mission · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |