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Critical Theology against US Militarism in Asia

Decolonization and Deimperialization

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Editors:
  1. Nami Kim

    1. Spelman College, Atlanta, USA

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  2. Wonhee Anne Joh

    1. Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Postcolonial Loss: Collective Grief in the Ruins of Militarized Terror

    • Wonhee Anne Joh
    Pages 1-24

  3. Militarism, Masculinism, and Martyrdom: Conditional Citizenship for (Asian) Americans

    • Tat-siong Benny Liew
    Pages 25-52

  4. Demilitarizing Haunted Genealogies as Transgenerational Affective Work of the Holy Ghost

    • Amy R. Barbour
    Pages 53-80

  5. (Un)Making Mothers, Orphans, and Transnational Adoptees: The Afterlife of the Vietnam War in Aimee Phan’s We Should Never Meet

    • Mimi Khúc
    Pages 81-100

  6. A Mission of Biopower: The United States Colonizes the Philippines

    • Jeremy Posadas
    Pages 101-130

  7. Killing Time

    • Jonathan Tran
    Pages 131-151

  8. The Impasse of Telling the “Moral Story”: Transnational Christian Human Rights Advocacy for North Koreans

    • Nami Kim
    Pages 153-176

  9. A Thief, a Woman, a People of the Land: Exploring Chamorro Strategies of Incarnation

    • Michael Sepidoza Campos
    Pages 177-198

  10. Faith-Based Popular Resistance to the Naval Base in Gangjeong of Jeju: Transforming Militarized US–Korea Relations for Peace and Justice

    • Keun-Joo Christine Pae
    Pages 199-226

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 227-237
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About this book

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.

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

  • Spelman College, Atlanta, USA

    Nami Kim

  • Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, USA

    Wonhee Anne Joh

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. 

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