Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion

This book presents personal narratives and collective ethnography of the emergence and development of Asian and Asian American women's scholarship in theology and religious studies. It demonstrates how the authors' religious scholarship is based on an embodied epistemology influenced by their social locations. Contributors reflect on their understanding of their identity and how this changed over time, the contribution of Asian and Asian American women to the scholarship work that they do, and their hopes for the future of their fields of study. The volume is multireligious and intergenerational, and is divided into four parts: identities and intellectual journeys, expanding knowledge, integrating knowledge and practice, and dialogue across generations.

Explores the ways Asian and Asian American women articulate their understandings of their religions, taking into consideration intersecting identities of race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, and colonization Includes contributors from a variety of Asian ethnicities and backgrounds Written for members of all racial and ethic groups who are looking for fresh perspectives and new scholarship

Autorentext

Kwok Pui-lan is William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and spirituality, emerita, at Episcopal Divinity School and a past president of the American Academy of Religion. An internationally known theologian, she is the author of Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology and Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. The Process of Becoming for a Woman Warrior from the Slums.- 3. Anamnesis as a Source of Love.- 4. Taking Refuge in the Body to Know the Self Anew: Buddhism, Race, and Embodiment.- 5. Finding Home from the In-between Space for a Queer Asian American Christian Woman.- 6. When Buddha and Jesus Danced.- 7. Asian American Women's History Is American Religious History.- 8. Dislocated: Early Modern Christian Women in Asia and Asian.- 9. Neither Here nor There! A Hermeneutics of Shuttling: Reflections of an Indian Postcolonial Feminist Biblical Critic.- 10. Inheriting Our Sisters' Wisdom: Kachin Feminist Theology .- 11. Self-Reflexity, Knowledge Production, and Cross-Racial Solidarity.- 12. Interreligious Learning and Intersectionality.- 13. Subversive Leadership of Asian and Asian American Women.- 14. Cultivating Moral Imagination in Theological Field Education.- 15. On Becoming Asian American Christian Ethicists.- 16. Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: Letters to Women Who Hold Up the Moon.