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Mission, Migration, and Integration

Perspectives on African Pentecostals Response to African Refugees in a European Context

by Charles Gyasi (Author)
©2024 Thesis 166 Pages

Summary

This book examines the responses of African Pentecostal Churches in a European context to the plight of African refugees and asylum seekers. It reveals the pressing needs of African refugees and asylum seekers including language skills, basic legal orientation, emotional therapy, accommodation, employment and prayer support. It also draws attention to the lack of proactivity and compassion in the response of African Pentecostal Churches in Europe to the refugee crisis, despite the many helpful ways in which they support these refugees and asylum seekers. The author’s analysis points out that this lack of proactivity and compassion has led to many creative survival tactics that African refugees and asylum seekers use in Europe. The data collected facilitates a fruitful, insightful and practical academic discussion on contemporary issues in mission, migration, and integration, lending support to constructive mission praxis within African Pentecostal Christianity. Missiologists and non-missiologists will learn from the book the critical themes of Pentecostalism and contextualization, Pentecostalism and transformation, mission and migration, identity as a tool for mission and integration, religious response to social challenges and effect of volunteerism on mission.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Glossary of Terms
  • List of Acronyms & Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter 1: God’s Mission in a Challenged World
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Overview of Context & Background
  • 1.2.1 Contextual Background
  • 1.2.2 Missiological Background
  • 1.3 Rationale for the Study
  • 1.3.1 Further Clarification
  • 1.3.2 Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants
  • 1.4 Description of Methodology
  • 1.5 Personal Reflection
  • 1.6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 2: Pentecostalism, Contextualisation & Transformation
  • 2.1 Pentecostalism & Contextualisation
  • 2.2 Pentecostalism & Transformation
  • 2.2.1 Religious Transformation
  • 2.2.2 Personal Transformation
  • 2.2.3 Social, Political, and Economic Transformation
  • Chapter 3: Pentecostalism, Mission & Migration
  • 3.1 African Pentecostal Migrants in Mission
  • 3.2 The Mutuality between Mission and Migration
  • 3.3 Migration and Minority Identity Groups
  • Chapter 4: Compassionate Mission: 
Contemporary Responses
  • 4.1 Overview
  • 4.2 Selected Political Responses
  • 4.3 Selected Religious Responses
  • 4.4 Compassion and Mission among African Migrants
  • 4.4.1 The Concept of Compassion and the Missio Dei
  • 4.4.2 Pentecostalism and Compassion in Mission
  • 4.4.3 Compassion in the Context of Matthew 25:31–46
  • Chapter 5: Integration and Identity of Africans in a European Context
  • 5.1 The Key Issue
  • 5.2 The Situation of African Refugees and Asylum Seekers in a European Context
  • 5.3 Needs of African Refugees and Asylum Seekers
  • 5.4 Integration in Europe
  • 5.5 Identity as an Agent for Integration
  • 5.5.1 Religious Identity and Integration
  • 5.5.2 Cultural/Ethnic Identity and Economic Integration among Africans in a European Context
  • 5.6 Challenges to Religious and Cultural/Ethnic Identity Integration among Africans
  • 5.7 Proposal for Mission
  • Chapter 6: Resolving Contemporary Mission, Migration, and Integration Challenges
  • 6.1 The Way Forward
  • 6.1.1 Mission
  • 6.1.2 Migration
  • 6.1.3 Integration
  • 6.2 Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix: Individual Consent Form for Participation in Research Interview
  • Series Index

Glossary of Terms

African Refugees

This expression simply refers to refugees in the context of the research who come from Africa and bear official documentation to that effect.

APC Leaders

This refers to both ordained and lay leaders of the African Pentecostal Churches.

Ausbildung

This is a training programme comprising of different modules organised for new persons recruited into the German economic system. It could be called apprenticeship.

Mainline churches

This refers to traditional churches like the Catholics, Anglicans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and the Lutherans.

List of Acronyms & Abbreviations

AIC

African Independent/Indigenous Church

APC

African Pentecostal Church

App

Application

AUC

African Union Commission

CCME

Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe

CNBC

Complete Breaking News Channel

DMI

Department for Migration and Integration

EMK

Evangelisch Methodistische Kirche

EU

European Union

G20

Group of Twenty

ICC

International Church Convent

ICT

Information and Communication Technology

IOM

International Organisation for Migration

IPA

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

IRC

International Rescue Committee

IT

Information Technology

NGO

Non-Governmental Organisation

NIV

New International Version

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OCRPL-UK

Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life

PEF

Pentecostal European Fellowship

PRC

Protestant Reformed Churches

PRS&D

Presbyterian Relief Services and Development

SPD

Social Democratic Party

UEM

United Evangelical Mission

UMC

United Methodist Church

UN

United Nations

UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UN OHCHR

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

USA

United States of America

USAID

Details

Pages
166
Publication Year
2024
ISBN (PDF)
9783631918944
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631918951
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631918937
DOI
10.3726/b22069
Language
English
Publication date
2024 (September)
Keywords
Pentecostalism mission migration integration identity social challenges volunteerism
Published
Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, 2024. 166 pp.
Product Safety
Peter Lang Group AG

Biographical notes

Charles Gyasi (Author)

Charles Gyasi is a teacher, preacher, motivator, and researcher with nearly two decades of practical ministerial experience in Ghana and abroad. He holds a PhD in Missiology from Stellenbosch University (South Africa), an MA in Theology and Transformative Practice from Newman University, Birmingham (UK), and an MA in Religion and Human Values from the University of Cape Coast (Ghana). His published works span various subjects, including migration and mission.

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