Diasporic Feminist Theology

Asia and Theopolitical Imagination

Namsoon Kang

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781451472981
• eBook ISBN:
  9781451489729
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

How do we navigate the question of identity in the fluid and pluralist conditions of postmodern society? Even more, how do we articulate identity as a defining particularity in the disappearance of borders, boundaries, and spaces in an increasingly globalist world? What constitutes identity and the formation of narratives under such conditions? How do these issues affect not only discursive practices, but theological and ethical construction and practice? This volumes explores these issues in depth. Diasporic Feminist Theology attempts to construct feminist theology by adopting diaspora as a theopolitical and ethical metaphor. Namsoon Kang here revisits and reexamines today's significant issues such as identity politics, dislocation, postmodernism, postcolonialism, neo-empire, Asian values, and constructs diasporic, transethnic, and glocal feminist theological discourses that create spaces of transformation, reconciliation, hospitality, worldliness, solidarity, and border-traversing. This work draws on diverse sources from contemporary critical discourses of diaspora studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism and feminist theology from a transterritorial space. This book is a landmark work, providing a comprehensive discourse for feminist theology today.

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Index

abnormal, 44, 64, 122, 309

abortion, 56, 261, 314

Abraham, 23-25, 170, 174-75; Abram, 23-25

absence, 78, 80, 128, 133, 139, 154, 186-87, 217-18, 256, 272, 285, 308, 310

absolute victim, 129, 271; see also pure victim

absolutism, 11-12, 61

Ackroyd, Peter, 131

acquired language, 27, 180-81

actions of resistance, 208

Adorno, Theodore, 1-3, 17, 20, 26

aesthetic, 15, 19, 83, 132,

Africa, 67, 94-97

African American, 12, 16, 46, 48, 52, 82, 178

ageism, 172

agency, 50, 69, 152, 173; agenthood, 3, 11

agnation, 259, 313

ahistorical, 84, 135, 141, 173

alienation, 2, 11-12, 19, 36, 310

already, 3, 13, 18, 25, 29, 34, 39, 47, 66, 69, 71, 143, 169, 188, 218; see also not-yet, 96, 109, 128, 205, 208

alterity, xi, 10, 15, 18, 36, 41, 43, 49, 55, 67-71, 137, 156-57, 159

ancestor worship, 260-61, 265, 281, 299, 301

Anderson, Benedict, 74

androcentrism, 115, 123, 158, 296, 314

androcentric, 30, 96, 120, 200, 255-56, 263, 277, 284, 307, 313, 315

An-Naim, Abdullahi A., 289

anonymous collectivity, 89, 112

anthropomorphic, 117

Anzaldua, Gloria, 27, 41, 177

Arendt, Hannah, 20-22, 26-28, 31, 37-38

as-discourse, 202-8, 217; as-Asian, 203, 205, 207-8, 213, 229; as-Asian-feminists, 205; as-Asian-women, 205, 207-8 ; as-Christians, 205; as-men, 204; as-white, 204; as-woman/en, 202, 204-5, 208; as-women-the-victimized, 218; women-as-victims, 218

Asian Miracle, 290

Asian theology, 81, 83, 89-90, 101, 104-6, 184; Asian theologians, 81-90, 101, 103, 105, 179; Asian theological discourse, 82, 85, 87-89, 104, 106

Asian values, 230-31, 289-96, 319

Asianness, 85, 89, 91, 102, 104, 106, 183

Asians-in-differential, 93; see also identity-in-differential

Asian-women, 45, 47, 49, 61, 64, 73-74, 87, 90-94, 97, 99,-101, 182-3, 186, 188, 193-202, 204-8, 210, 212-13, 215, 217, 225, 227-28, 230-31, 233-36, 238-240, 242-43

assimilation, 22, 229, 233; assimilate, 21-22, 178, 283

authenticity, 44, 62, 183, 193, 225, 286; authenticization, 46, 51, 198; authoritarianism, 295, 316; inauthentic, 44, 77-79, 196, 231

balkanization, 205, 250

Bangladesh, 204, 237

Bateson, Gregory, 45

Bei Dao, 77-79

being-with-others, 34

Bhabha, Homi K., 10, 14, 36, 103, 114, 120, 170, 174, 219, 249

Bible, 118, 135, 156, 175, 276-77, 279-80

binary, 2, 10, 23, 47, 64-65, 68-71, 80, 114, 119, 122, 134, 140, 146, 198, 214, 216; binarism, 42, 62, 64, 85, 100, 121, 165, 213, 230-31, 320

biological, 2, 32, 48, 92, 97, 124, 155, 165, 182, 202-3, 211, 253, 265-66, 297-98, 303-4, 308-9, 312; biological difference, 155; biological essentialism, 202-3; biological family, 266, 308; biological sameness, 97

Book of Filiality, 266, 300

border, xii, xiv, 9, 15-16, 26, 28, 31, 49, 64, 72, 75, 103-4, 107, 109, 123, 128-30, 152, 155, 165, 176, 178, 181, 189, 221, 239, 249, 273; border-crossing, 15, 72; border-traversing, xiv, 9, 26, 31, 107, 128-130; borderline, 103, 189

Braidotti, Rosi, 173

Buddhism, 255, 282; Buddhist, 236, 255

Bulsin Jiok, 274

Butler, Judith, 23, 41, 59, 66

capitalism, 228, 234, 248, 291; anticapitalist, 149; capital, 51, 221, 224, 236, 242; capitalist, 220-21, 236, 243, 245; see also neocapitalist

categorization, 64, 68, 92, 95, 140, 165, 188

category, 23, 47-48, 56, 65-66, 73-74, 92-94, 182, 185, 228, 301

Catholic, 158, 273, 279, 302

centrism, 124-25; see also androcentrism, ecclesiocentrism, English-centrism, ethnocentrism, Euro/U.S.-centrism, geocentrism, heterocentrism, West-centrism

Chan-yang-hoe, 281

Chaplin, Charlie, 21-22

Chicana, 27

Childs, Brian H., 302

China, 91, 96, 183, 199, 240, 274, 276, 291-92

chokbo, 314

chon myong, 256

Chong-dong Methodist Church, 279

chonmin, 270

Chosun, 241, 283, 313

Christian Conference of Asia, 194-95

chulga oein, 260

Chung, David, 254-55

circle of inclusion, 4, 135

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table Of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Diasporic Feminist Theology
• Identity, Différance, and Alterity
• Asia as Theopolitical Imagination
• Radical Border-Traversing
• From Epistemology to Hermeneutics
• Out of Places
• Glocal Feminist Theology in an Era of Neoempires
• Transethnic Feminist Theology in an Era of Globalization
• Negotiating the Alternative
• Resurgence of Asian Values
• Bibliography
• Index