On the Promise and Limits of Politics: Faith-Based Responses to Asylum-Seeking
(2018)
Book Chapter
Rowlands, A. (2018). On the Promise and Limits of Politics: Faith-Based Responses to Asylum-Seeking. In B. Ryan (Ed.), Fortress Britain? Ethical approaches to Immigration (68-93). Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Outputs (3)
Temporality, Dispossession and the Search for the Good: Interpreting the Book of Jeremiah with the Jesuit Refugee Service (2018)
Journal Article
Rowlands, A. (2018). Temporality, Dispossession and the Search for the Good: Interpreting the Book of Jeremiah with the Jesuit Refugee Service. Political Theology, 19(6), 517-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317x.2018.1502908This 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 inter... Read More about Temporality, Dispossession and the Search for the Good: Interpreting the Book of Jeremiah with the Jesuit Refugee Service.
Against the Manichees: Immigration Detention and the Shaping of the Theo-political Imagination (2018)
Book Chapter
Rowlands, A. (2018). Against the Manichees: Immigration Detention and the Shaping of the Theo-political Imagination. In U. Schmiedel, & G. Smith (Eds.), Religion in the European Refugee Crisis (163-187). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67961-7_9This chapter explores the practices of immigration detention examined through an Augustinian lens. Making a case for a metaphysical reading of contemporary immigration practices distilled from the reasoning of both detainees themselves and the theolo... Read More about Against the Manichees: Immigration Detention and the Shaping of the Theo-political Imagination.