Overview
- Provides incisive interdisciplinary analyses of important, highly interrelated phenomena
- Contributors offer a wide range of perspectives and in some cases draw on personal anecdotes and experience
- Traces the afterlife of war, investigating how people engage the complex political, ethical, and religious processes of meaning-making
Part of the book series: New Approaches to Religion and Power (NARP)
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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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviews
“This volume makes a significant and groundbreaking contribution to critiques of US militarism in Asia and the Pacific by foregrounding a critical Christian theology that recognizes the complex interconnections between Christianity and US empire building. The essays in this collection offer crucial analyses of the manifold contours and effects of US militarism, while also charting important movements toward demilitarization. This is certain to be a widely read and influential book.” (Jodi Kim, University of California at Riverside, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Theology against US Militarism in Asia
Book Subtitle: Decolonization and Deimperialization
Editors: Nami Kim, Wonhee Anne Joh
Series Title: New Approaches to Religion and Power
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48013-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48012-5Published: 26 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69380-1Published: 15 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48013-2Published: 24 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6079
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6087
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 237
Topics: Christian Theology, Christianity, Asian Culture, Religion and Society, American Culture