Walking, Wounds and Washing Feet: Pedetic Textures of a Theo-Ethical Response to Migration

Feet play a crucial role in migration, and experiences of death and hopes for new life are etched into migrants' soles. In the face of complex and fraught ethical debates that have largely been deontological and teleological in tone, this article employs feet and footwashing as heuristic device...

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Main Author: Snyder, Susanna 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2019]
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-19
IxTheo Classification:CH Christianity and Society
NCA Ethics
Further subjects:B feet
B Migrants
B Mutuality
B footwashing
B Service
B Power
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Summary:Feet play a crucial role in migration, and experiences of death and hopes for new life are etched into migrants' soles. In the face of complex and fraught ethical debates that have largely been deontological and teleological in tone, this article employs feet and footwashing as heuristic devices to suggest the need for receiving communities to develop a multi-textured virtue-based response alongside these. Cultivation of a habitus rooted in attention to bodies, service, power subversion, mutuality and confession could lead to new life both for those in migration and those long settled.
ISSN:0953-9468
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946818807461