Border Theologies: Divine Communion, Divine Justice, and Religious Practices Among Indonesian Female Migrant Workers in Singapore

This dissertation presents anti-patriarchal Islamic and Christian theologies that are constructed from the lives of Indonesian female migrant workers (FMWs) in Singapore. The concept of border theologies is introduced to denote the kind of theologies that come out of the embodied experiences of the FMWs who live at the liminal spaces of belonging/non-belonging in the diaspora. To do so, three major aspects in the lives of the FMWs (theology, theodicy, and religious practices) are analyzed through the lenses of feminist ethnography and anthropological theology in this dissertation.