Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology
Title | Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Pui-lan Kwok |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780664228835 |
The burgeoning field of postcolonial studies argues that most theology has been formed in dominant cultures, laden intrinsically with imperializing structures. An essential task facing theology is thus to "decolonize" the mind and free Christianity from colonizing bias and structures. Here, in this truly groundbreaking study, highly respected feminist theologian Kwok Pui-lan offers the first full-length theological treatment of what it means to do postcolonial feminist theology. She explains her methodological basis and explores several specific topics, including Christology, pluralism, and creation.
Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology
Title | Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Pui-lan Kwok |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Feminist theology |
ISBN |
Interdependence
Title | Interdependence PDF eBook |
Author | HyeRan Kim-Cragg |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2018-05-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1498241808 |
This book calls attention to an urgent need for postcolonial feminist approaches to practical theology. It not only advocates for the inclusion of colonialism as a critical optic for practical theology but also demands a close look at how colonialism is entangled with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, disability, and sexual orientation. Seeking to highlight the importance of the interdependence of life, the author challenges and contests the notion of independence as the desirable goal of the human being. Lifting up the experiences of overlooked groups--including children at adult-centered worship, queer and interracial youth in heterosexual and white normative family discourse, and non-human species in human-centered academic and theological realms--the book contributes to expanding the concerns of practical theology in ways that create healthy community for all human beings and non-human fellow creatures. It also takes up issues of multiple religious belonging and migration that practical theology has not sufficiently explored. These illuminating new possibilities promise to renew and even transform church communities through the inclusion of often-neglected groups with whom God is already present.
Postcolonial Feminist Theology
Title | Postcolonial Feminist Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Wietske de Jong-Kumru |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 364390407X |
This book engages with the critical tools of Edward Said (1935-2003) and traces the voyage of various postcolonial feminist theologians. Along four intersecting lines, postcolonial feminist theology unfolds as addressing cultural othering, religious othering, gendered othering, and sexual othering. In critical solidarity with those constructed as other postcolonial feminist theology, the book challenges the norms of Western theology. (Series: ContactZone. Explorations in Intercultural Theology - Vol. 16)
Postcolonial Theology of Religions
Title | Postcolonial Theology of Religions PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Daggers |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2013-07-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1135038988 |
This original and ambitious book considers the terms of engagement between Christian theology and other religious traditions, beginning with criticism of Christian theology of religions as entangled with European colonial modernity. Jenny Daggers covers recent efforts to disentangle Eurocentrism from the meeting of the religions, and investigates new constructive possibilities arising in the postcolonial context. In dialogue with Asian and feminist theologies, she reflects on ways forward for relations between the religions and offers a particularist model for theology of religions, standing within a classical Trinitarian framework.
Feminist Theology and the Challenge of Difference
Title | Feminist Theology and the Challenge of Difference PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret D. Kamitsuka |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2007-07-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0195311620 |
Drawing from poststructuralist, postcolonial, and queer theory, this text explores the challenges of cultivating attentiveness to difference in women's experiences and reflects on the impact of race and sexuality on feminist theology.
Introducing Asian Feminist Theology
Title | Introducing Asian Feminist Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Kwok Pui-lan |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2000-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567273555 |
Asian women comprise more than a quarter of the world's population, and the forms in which they express feminist theology are many and varied, extending through grassroots movements, theological networks, ecumenical conferences and journals. Those involved in the process include community organizers, theological students, church leaders and social activists, among whom even the concept 'feminism' assumes many definitions and substitutes. Kwok Pui-lan's introduction to this huge subject begins with a survey of the social, political and cultural contexts of Asian women's experiences, and then traces the emergence of feminist consciousness and the organization of women's networks. She describes the resources of Asian feminist theology and the appropriation of Asian religious traditions, and considers the reconstructions of the concept of God in inclusive categories. Finally, she summarizes Asian women's critique of the patriarchal church and outlines the search for a new spirituality that express women's embodiedness and sexuality.