Temporality, Dispossession and the Search for the Good: Interpreting the Book of Jeremiah with the Jesuit Refugee Service

This article explores potential connections between the experience of contemporary forced migrants subject to destitution and detention policies in the UK and readings of the biblical text, including the Book of Jeremiah. Drawing from fieldwork interviews conducted in London, it notes the significan...

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Subtitles:"Special issue: Forced migration, political power and the Book of Jeremiah"
Main Author: Rowlands, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2018]
In: Political theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 6, Pages: 517-536
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B London / Refugee / Detention / Helplessness / Jeremiah / Spirituality
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
HB Old Testament
KBF British Isles
NCC Social ethics
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Forced Migration
B Jeremiah
B Destitution
B Jesuit Refugee Service
B Immigration detention
B Simone Weil
B Temporality
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)