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 ›
Asian Americans have a unique voice to contribute to the academy and yet, in the field of Christian ethics, there has not been Asian American voices or scholarship taking place specifically dealing with Asian American experiences. For the first time,… Read More ›
We live in a fast-paced world of complex challenges. While today, we are more technologically connected than ever before, paradoxically with this also come forms of disconnection—from others, ourselves, the earth, and God. Amidst seemingly endless choices and busy lives,… Read More ›
In his From a Liminal Place: An Asian American Theology, Sang Hyun Lee, a Korean American theologian, presents his practical theological analysis of the Asian American context, especially its bicultural nature. Two concepts are significant in his wring; liminality and… Read More ›
Note: The original article was presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, 2007. Among the many anthologies that I have read, Off the Menu is easily one of the best. In addition to the high quality of most… Read More ›
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