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Informationen zum Autor Kwok Pui-lan is William F Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School! Cambridge! Massachusetts. She was a founder of the Asian Women Theologian's Group and has been chair of the AAR Women and Religion Section and presently serves on the AAR Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities Committee. She is co-editor of Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion! and is on the editorial board of Journal of the American Academy of Religion and Journal of Asian and Asian American Theology Klappentext Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology explores how postcolonial theory can challenge and transform the field of theology with specific reference to feminist theology. The author, a Chinese Christian woman, asks why Chinese Christian women, such as her own ancestots, became Christians over a century ago. How did these women perceive what happened to them as they came Christian?In the first part of this book, Kwok Pui-lan explains her methodological basis for postcolonial theory, sets out different modes of postcolonial imagination and applies this to a feminist interpretation of theology. In the second part of the book the author articulates the vision of postcolonial feminist theology and engages in the debate on the gender of Christ, religious pluralism, globalisation and eco-feminism.Kwok Pui-lan is William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, USA. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part One : Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Interpretation; Chapter 1 Postcolonial Imagination: Historical! Dialogical and Diasporic; Chapter 2 Searching for Wisdom: Sources of Postcolonial Feminist Theologies; Chapter 3 Making the Connections: Postcolonial Studies and Feminist Biblical Interpretation; Chapter 4 Finding Ruth a Home: Gender! Sexuality and the Politics of Otherness; Part Two : Postcolonial Feminist Theological Vision; Chapter 5 Postcolonial Feminist Theology: What is it? How to do It?; Chapter 6 Political Theology : Voices of Women from the South; Chapter 7 Engendering Christ: Who Do You Say That I Am?; Chapter 8 Beyond Pluralism: Towards a Postcolonial Theology of Religions; Chapter 9 Mending of Creation: Women! Nature and Hope. ...
