Public Theology for the Postmigrant Society

“Det började röra sig!”

Abstract

This article argues for a coalitional and comparative public theology as a new approach to the study of Global Christianity. This theology analyzes and assesses practices of living together in postmigrant societies. The article takes the shift from diverse migrant societies to superdiverse postmigrant societies that shapes many cities across Europe as a point of departure to scrutinize the role of religion in superdiverse practices of living together. Surveying the history of the study of Global Christianity at Lund, the article probes the potential that apophaticism holds for the epistemological and ethical challenges that confront postmigrant public squares. What is at stake in these public squares is how society can get beyond the social dividing line of migration. Through a coalitional and comparative public theology, the study of Global Christianity can make significant contributions to precisely this social, cultural, and political transformation.