“Textual Placemaking and Migration Memories in Psalm 137”
“Textual Placemaking and Migration Memories in Psalm 137”

Author(s): Eric M Trinka
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Biblical studies, Migration Studies, Sociology of Religion, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Textual Placemaking; Migration; Memories; Psalm 137
Summary/Abstract: This chapter arose from an interest in the broader question of how religious texts form and function as catalysts and containers of memory in contexts of mobility and migration. It is well documented by now that religion plays important roles for many migrants throughout the migration undertaking. Religion is embedded in the social world of migration decision-making and informs responses to (in)security. Religious practice also plays an integral role in shaping, perpetuating, and responding to cultures of mobility and migration regimes. Textualized creations are among the mnemonic cultural products mobile/migrant religious actors generate. Some such texts become sacralized for communities of faith and may even as function as foundational resources in later contexts of movement.

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