Critical Theology against US Militarism in Asia

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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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.

• decolonization
• deimperialization
• de-cold-war
• Christianity
• imperialist militarism
• Asian and Asian American
• collective subjectivity
• decolonial
• Asia Pacific
• religion
• theology
• religion and society

“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)

• Spelman College, Atlanta, USA

  Nami Kim

• Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, USA

  Wonhee Anne Joh

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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