Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity

ISBN-13: 9781349954339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str.

Julius-Kei Kato

Recenzje

"Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity is a welcome addition and a thoughtful contribution to the developing field of Asian American theology. Those seeking to understand the direction of this field today will benefit from reading this book." (Andrew Ong, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, April, 2017)

Spis treści

Introduction: What does Hybridity have to do with Religious Language? How Asian North American Hybridity Could Converse with Religion Today

Part I: Foundations

1. Our Building Blocks: Hybridity, Diaspora, Hermeneutics and the Identity of the Interpreter

2. The What and What-Not of Asian North American Hermeneutics: What Mark 2:23-28 and l’affaire Peter Phan Illustrate

3. A Thick Description of Hybrid Theological Interpreters

4. Should There Really Be an “End of Faith”? Hybridity and Sam Harris’ Proposal for an “End” to Religion

5. Talking Back to Our Parents: What Asian North American Hybridity Can Suggest to Asia

Part II: Hybridity Converses with Particular Themes

6.The New Testament Canon as Hybrid

7. The Changes in Jesus’ Plans: How Hybridity Reveals and Revels in a Developmental View of Jesus

8. John’s Claims of Superiority as Seen through Hybrid Eyes

9. Revelation’s Telos (Goal of History) as Seen through Hybrid Eyes

10. The Dark Side of Realized Hope: Hybridity Traces the Roots of Christian Intolerance

11. What is “Conversion” in a Hybridized Postmodern World? From Monoreligiosity to Interreligiosity

Conclusion: Assessing Hybridity’s Role in Religious Language: Toward an Interreligious/Interspiritual Future

O autorze

 Julius-Kei Kato, a proud Filipino-Japanese-Canadian hybrid, is Associate Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at King’s University College, London, Canada. He has previously served as Assistant Professor at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, and Visiting Associate Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan. He is the author of How Immigrant Christians Living in Mixed Cultures Interpret Their Religion (2012). He has lived and studied in Manila, Tokyo, Rome, Jerusalem, and Berkeley-California, among other places.   

Blurb

 In this book, Julius-Kei Kato lets the theories and experiences of Asian American hybridity converse with and bear upon some aspects of Christian biblical and theological language. Hybridity has become a key feature of today’s globalized world and is, of course, a key concept in postcolonial thought. However, despite its crucial importance, hybridity is rarely used as a paradigm through which to analyze and evaluate the influential concepts and teachings that make up religious language. This book fills a lacuna by discussing what the concept of hybridity challenges and resists, what over-simplifications it has the power to complicate, and what forgotten or overlooked strands in religious tradition it endeavors to recover and reemphasize. Shifting seamlessly between biblical, theological, and modern, real-world case studies, Kato shows how hybridity permeates and can illuminate religious phenomena as lived and believed. The ultimate goal of the move toward an embrace of hybridity isa further dissolution of the thick wall separating ideas of "us" and "them." In this book, Kato suggests the possibility of a world in which what one typically considers the "other" is increasingly recognized within oneself.