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Transpacific Political Theology

Name: Transpacific Political Theology
Author: Pui-lan Kwok
ISBN: 9781481320269

Perspectives, Paradigms, Proposals

Edited by Pui-lan Kwok

Published by: Baylor University Press

Imprint: Baylor University Press

Essays from Asian, Pacific, and Asian American religious scholars offering political analyses and theological insights on the changing geopolitics in the Asian Pacific.

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Since U.S. political and military strategies pivoted to Asia, tensions between the United States and Asian and Pacific countries have escalated. Geopolitical changes in the Asia Pacific have challenged the world order and will shape the destiny of the twenty-first century. These rapid changes test and challenge the concepts, theories, and frameworks developed in political theology arising from North Atlantic contexts. It is urgent to scrutinize the relationship between the theological and the political from a transpacific perspective.

In Transpacific Political Theology, Kwok Pui-lan brings together sixteen scholars from across the theological disciplines and from various Asian countries and North America. The book provides a framework for transpacific political theology by discussing racism and casteism, racial capitalism, gender and sexuality, Asian and Pacific political visions, and the China-U.S. contest. It elucidates the intersection between sexual politics and theology by queering heteronormativity, Asian values, and binary national narratives. With the heightened military tensions in the region, the book offers insights into war and violence, invokes the power of mourning, explores the use of art in interreligious healing, describes the processes of peacebuilding, and provides theo-ethical principles for reparations.

The collective insights of these scholars produce a pioneering mosaic in the developing field of transpacific studies. In addition to moving the burgeoning field forward, the cutting-edge perspectives developed in Transpacific Political Theology provide a lens through which the reader can reevaluate the complex power structures, theological frameworks, and status quo of empire, coloniality, and marginalization that might exist in their context, opening doors into further conversations of liberation and just peace.

Introduction: Transpacific Political Theology in the Making: Development and Themes Kwok Pui-lan

I Political Theology in a Transpacific Frame1 Reckoning with Violent Transpacific Legacies: The Impact of Racism and Casteism Sunder John Boopalan2 The Plenteous Harvest: Racial Capitalism’s Transpacific Implication for American Antiracism Jonathan Tran3 I Am a Citizen of the Pacific Ocean: A Transpacific Feminist Theology from Jeju Island Keun-joo Christine Pae4 Theologizing Moana and Pasifika World(view)s Jione Havea

II Geopolitics and Power5 Climate Change and U.S. Militarized Responses in Asia and the Pacific Nami Kim6 "Neither Here nor There" as Prophetic Witness: On Asian American Politics between Empires Ki Joo Choi7 The Question of Political Legitimacy in Chinese Political Theology Peng Yin8 National Ideology and Folklore for a Christian Political Theology in Indonesia Izak Y. M. Lattu9 The Postsecular and the Pedagogical in Political Theologies in Sinophone Communities Justin K. H. Tse10 The Geopolitics of Interreligious Dialogue: Political Zionism, Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism, and the Oppressed Jude Lal Fernando

III Erotopolitics and Theology11 Intersections: Queer Theology and Political Theology Sharon A. Bong12 A Theophilosophical Meditation: Queering Filipino Selfhood and Nationhood Michael Sepidoza Campos

IV Theopolitics of Peace and Reparation13 Mourning All the Dead: A Politico-Theological Imagination for Peace Kyeongil Jung14 A Theopoetics of the Wounds: An Indonesian Feminist Historiography of Political Trauma Septemmy E. Lakawa15 When "Sorry" Isn’t Enough: Constructing an Asian American Theology of Reparations Grace Y. Kao

Epilogue: Conversations on Transpacific Political Theologies Past, Present, Future Lester Edwin J. Ruiz

Kwok Pui-lan was Dean's Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology. She also co-edited Teaching Global Theologies: Power and Praxis.

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