Embodying Antiracist Christianity Asian American Theological Resources for Just Racial Relations

At a moment of notably rising levels of anti-Asian hate, this book offers antiracist resources informed by Asian/North American feminist theology and biblical scholarship. Although there exist scholarly books and articles on Asian American theology (broadly defined) have proliferated in response to...

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Other Authors: Pae, Keun-joo Christine (Editor), Lee, Boyung (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: How Do You Feel Becoming a Problem?; Keun-joo Christine Pae and Boyung Lee
  • Part I: Settler Colonialism, Anti-Black Racism, and Anti-Asian Racism
  • 2. America, The New Jerusalem and Anti-Immigrant Discourse; Yii-Jan Lin
  • 3. Waves of Memory and Possibility: Remembering New Songs, Re-Forming Old Ones as Asian Settlers; SueJeanne Koh
  • 4. The Cosmopolitics of Belonging: Model Minority Superheroes and Theological Imagination; B. Yuki Schwartz
  • 5. An Antiracist and Antiwar Feminist Theology: When the US Military Empire Divides Us; Keun-joo Christine Pae
  • 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; Jin Young Choi
  • 7. Beyond Siloed Solidarity: The Place of Asian Americans in the Struggle for Racial Justice; Jessica Wai-Fong Wong
  • 8. The Confines of “Antiracism” Work in the Intersectional Realities of “Anti-Asian” Violence; NamiKim
  • Part III: Rereading Memories and Creative Activism
  • 9. Tasting Me/You: Sensory-Affective Multiracial Identity Formations; Heike Peckruhn
  • 10. Toward Solidarity-Creating Narratives: Anti-Racist Identity Formation in Korean Immigrant Churches; Boyung Lee
  • 11. Under the Master’s Table: An Anti-darkness and Caste Interpretation of the Canaanite Woman; Sharon Jacob
  • 12. Who Is Family?: Where Asian North American Christians Are in Empathizing with Black People; Courtney T. Goto