Embodying Antiracist Christianity : Asian American Theological Resources for Just Racial Relations / / Keun-joo Christine Pae and Boyung Lee, editors

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 pages)
• Disciplina: 230.08996073
• Soggetto topico: Anti-racism - Religious aspects - Christianity; Asian Americans - Social conditions; Feminist theology; Race relations - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Persona (resp. second.): PaeKeun-Joo Christine; LeeBoyung
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction: Problematizing a Problem -- Problematizing a Problem of Asian America -- Diseases and Historical Trace of Anti-Asian Racism -- Toward Antiracist Asian American Theology -- Structure of the Book -- How to Use This Book: Some Suggestions -- Bibliography -- Part I: Settler Colonialism, Anti-Black Racism, and Anti-Asian Racism -- 2: America, the New Jerusalem, and Anti-immigrant Discourse -- Introduction -- Apocalyptic "Discovery" -- Pilgrimage to the New Jerusalem -- Bones and Bodies -- Revelation and Yellow Peril -- Waiting at the Golden Gate -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- 3: Waves of Memory and Possibility: Remembering New Songs, Re-forming Old Ones as Asian Settlers -- Introduction -- Settled Accretions -- Swirling Sediments: National Innocence and Indigenous Erasure -- Sound Waves of Settler Colonialism -- Settler Colonial Nostalgia -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- 4: The Cosmopolitics of Belonging: Model Minority Superheroes and Theological Imagination -- The Theological Imagination of US Superheroes -- Asian Americans Superheroes in US Theological Imagination -- Seriality and Model Minority Minor Feelings -- The Serial Shame of Asian American Model Minority Superheroes -- Imagining Jubilee and Belonging in the Era of Anti-Asian Violence -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- 5: An Antiracist and Antiwar Feminist Theology: When the US Military Empire Divides Us -- Defying the Secrecy of the Cold War -- Anti-Black Racism and Anti-Asian Racism in the United States and East Asia -- Prostitution and Anti-Asian Racism -- Anti-Black Racism in Japan and Korea -- The Convergence of International and Domestic Racial Politics -- Anti-Communism and Racism: Korea-US Relations -- Antiwar/Antiracist Feminism When Christianity Matters. ; Renewing Christian Internationalism: A Theological Reflection on the Women's International Democratic Federation -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- Part II: Cross-Racial and Cross-Border Solidarity -- 6: Intimate Encounters at the Unhomely Home: Reading Morrison's Home and the Gospel of John's Homecoming Story -- The Korean War, the Black Soldier, and Home -- Morrison on Home -- John's Homecoming Story -- Conclusion: Haunting for Cross-racial Solidarity -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- 7: Beyond Siloed Solidarity: The Place of Asian Americans in the Struggle for Racial Justice -- The System of Race and Pursuit of Justice -- Kinship and Belonging -- Pure and Impure -- Power -- The Order of God -- Power -- Kinship and Belonging -- Pure and Impure -- Purity of the Plantation and Freedom of the Spirit -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- 8: The Confines of "Antiracism" Work in the Intersectional Realities of "Anti-Asian" Violence -- The Questions We Are Asking -- The Atlanta Mass Shooting: "An Awakening Moment" for Who? -- The Confines of Antiracism Work: Minority Nationalism and "National Belonging" in a Settler Colonial Nation-State -- Intersectional Realities of "Anti-Asian" Violence -- Rejecting a Theology of Decency -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- Part III: Rereading Memories and Creative Activism -- 9: Tasting Me/You: Sensory-Affective Multiracial Identity Formations -- Eating Thai Food, Consuming Race: Thai(ness) in America -- Sensory-Affective Multiracialization as Theological Process and Mobilization -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- 10: Toward Solidarity-Creating Narratives: Anti-Racist Identity Formation in Korean Immigrant Churches -- Introduction -- Narrating Our Histories and Forming Our Identities -- Korean/American Identity Narratives and Anti-black Racism in Churches. ; Toward Solidarity-Based Identity Formation Narratives -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- 11: Under the Master's Table: An Anti-darkness and Caste Interpretation of the Canaanite Woman -- Color, Caste, and Christianity -- Connecting Color to Caste -- From Color to Caste to Religion: Christian Women's Cases -- Anti-Canaaniteness: Reading Matthew 15:21-28 Through the Lens of Anti-darkness -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Bibliography -- 12: Who Is Family? Where Asian North American Christians Are in Empathizing with Black People -- Kochiyama as "Saintly" -- Practicing Introspection Within Intersubjective Encounters -- Encounter 1: "Becoming a Presence" -- Encounter 2: Holding the Wounded -- Encounter 3: Making Hard Choices -- Where Are We in Empathizing with Black People as Family? -- Questions for Discussion -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Embodying Antiracist Christianity
• ISBN: 3-031-37264-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910799494603321
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