Using Thailand as a context, suffering as a theme, and the Trinity and the Buddha as sources, Satanun Boonyakiat made an important interpretation and implication of Asian comparative theology of suffering. This is a published version of Boonyakiat’s Fuller Seminary… Read More ›
The Lisu people are one of the Tibeto-Burman ethnic groups who reside in the mountainous regions of China, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), and India. The Lisu dominantly practiced swidden agriculture and hunting for livelihood, and they worshipped animism until Christianity came… Read More ›
“Minjung theology is” what a renowned German theologian Jürgen Moltmann (1926-), a cordial friend of some Minjung theologians, including Ahn Byung-Mu (1922-1996) called “the first liberation theology to come from Asia, with critical questions put to the First World.” By now, Minjung theology… Read More ›
Jaeyeong Lucy Chung’s book provides a criticism of Korean women’s development of “low self-esteem” and “false-self identity,” isolated from their parents, husbands, and parents in law, and suggests a practical methodology of pastoral care for Korean women for overcoming this… Read More ›
An Tran has written a valuable book which gives us insight into the religious beliefs and practices in eighteenth-century Vietnam, and of Christian missionary responses to and understandings of those beliefs and practices. The core of his book is a… Read More ›
The term, Climate Justice, comes from the premise that climate change, or global warming in narrow sense, has real impact on the entire planet. In terms of matter of climate justice and injustice, the problematic structure of reality is that,… Read More ›
Simon Chan, professor of systematic theology at Trinity College in Singapore, challenges the way in which Asian theology has been understood and reified by Western theologians. Chan poses the question of why Asian theology largely consists of elitist theological accounts… Read More ›
Feminist theologians in Asia, Africa, and Latin America gathered together and produced this edited volume of theologies from the perspectives of indigenous women in Third World. In this book, the indigenous women are not merely defined by geographical locations, but… Read More ›
Leading religious scholars, who belong to and work with/for marginalized communities, collaborated together on producing an edited volume, Ethics: A Liberative Approach. Miguel A. De La Torre, the editor of this book, states the purpose of this book: exposing readers… Read More ›
Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s new book, Embracing the Other, prophetically suggests a theological reconstruction of the doctrine of God—what she calls “Sprit God”—from a perspective of Asian American feminist theologian. Her methodology for this theological reconstruction stands in continuity of (Western)… Read More ›
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