Postcolonial Leadership

Choi Hee An is Clinical Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University School of Theology. Her books include A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church, also published by SUNY Press.

"…Choi offers an eye-opening analysis of the current situation and the challenges of Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the US context, and proposes postcolonial leadership as a new leadership model for Asian immigrant Christian leaders … Choi's research is significant for preachers because a primary way to exercise leadership is speech and the majority of Asian immigrant Christian leaders are preachers. Her analysis of the postcolonial self as the foundation of postcolonial leadership is helpful for Asian immigrant preachers to find their own preaching voice in the postcolonial self, instead of assimilating to the preachers idealized in the colonized mind." — Homiletic"A Postcolonial Leadership is a good and original contribution to the emerging field of Christian Leadership…" — Theology of Leadership Journal"This book includes a wide variety of historical, contemporary, and cross-cultural understanding of leadership theories; in particular, it provides a unique understanding of the challenges and possibilities of Asian American leadership in immigrant communities and churches. Anyone interested in the topic will appreciate the depth and breadth that this work provides." — Sangyil Sam Park, author of Korean Preaching, Han, and Narrative

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Understandings of Leadership 1. Leadership in a Secular Context2. Leadership in ChristianityPart II. Leadership and Its Challenges in US Culture 3. Leadership in US Culture4. Challenges of Asian Immigrant LeadershipPart III. Postcolonial Leadership in an Asian Immigrant Christian Context 5. Asian Immigrant Christian Leadership6. Critical Features of a Postcolonial LeadershipConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex