Critical Theology Against Us Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization

ISBN-13: 9781137480125 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 237 str.

N. Kim; W. Joh

Opis

Drawing on cultural studies scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen's threefold notion of decolonization, deimperialization, and de-cold-war, this book provides analyses of the interrelated issues concerning the relationship between Christianity and the United States' imperialist militarism in the Asia Pacific. Contributors explore the effects of US imperialist militarism on the formation of Asian and Asian American collective subjectivity and inter/intra subjectivity. The book investigates the ways in which Christianity (broadly defined), in its own complexity, has been complicit in maintaining and reinforcing US imperialist military agendas in both national and international contexts. Conversely, the volume also discusses the various sites and instances where Christianity has managed to serve as a force of resistance against US imperialist militarism.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Postcolonial Loss: Collective Grief in the Ruins of Militarized Terror; Wonhee Anne Joh

2. Militarism, Masculinism, and Martyrdom: Conditional Citizenship for (Asians) Americans; Tat-Siong Benny Liew

3. Demilitarizing Haunted Genealogies as Transgenerational Affective Work of the Holy Ghost; Amy R. Barbour

4. (Un)Making Mothers, Orphans, and Transnational Adoptees: The Afterlife of the Vietnam War in Aimee Phan's We Should Never Meet; Mimi Khúc

5. A Mission of Biopower: The United States Colonizes the Philippines; Jeremy Posadas

6. Killing Time; Jonathon Tran

7. The Impasse of Telling the “Moral Stor

O autorze

Nami Kim is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Spelman College, USA. Her book The Gendered Politics of the Korean Protestant Right: Hegemonic Masculinity is forthcoming (Palgrave Macmillan). Kim serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion. 

Wonhee Anne Joh is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA. She is the author of Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology.