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Demonstrating the significant impact of Asian and Asian American feminist theologians on reshaping theological education and ministerial practice, this single, essential volume brings together four decades of theological leadership, wisdom, and imagination .Crossing Shores and Horizons examines the development and influence of Asian and Asian American transnational feminist theologies over the past four decades through the work of Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM), founded in 1984. Bringing together voices spanning generations, disciplines, and practices, this book provides a comprehensive look at the contributions of Asian and Asian American feminist theologians, faith leaders, and activists.By combining historical reflection, critical analysis, and imaginative theological insight, this volume demonstrates how Asian and Asian American feminist theologians have reshaped theological education, knowledge production, and pastoral practice. As readers move through each of the book’s four sections, they will find contributions that challenge colonial, patriarchal, and racialized paradigms while offering pathways toward healing, solidarity, and community renewal.The book begins with a section titled “Trailblazers of Transformation,” which presents oral histories with PANAAWTM’s founding members, including Gale Yee, Kwok Pui-lan, and Rita Nakashima Brock, among others, highlighting the formation of frameworks and mentorship for future scholars. The next section, “Collective Healing and Communal Wisdom,” features chapters that apply transnational feminist theologies to community and global concerns, including intergenerational trauma and ecological devastation. The “Reimagining Theological Discourses” section then explores creative, interdisciplinary approaches to transnational feminist theologies through art, literature, and Christian theological reflection. The final section, “Weaving New Worlds,” focuses on emerging directions, including engagement with public life, peacemaking, and interreligious dialogue.This intergenerational, multidisciplinary, and multimodal collection serves as a resource for professors, pastors, chaplains, activists, and faith leaders, providing insight into both the origins and future trajectories of Asian and Asian American transnational feminist theologies. Crossing Shores and Horizons offers a rich encounter with voices that have transformed the theological landscape and continue to inspire collective imagination for scholarship and ministry.

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.

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.

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.

Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism provides critical feminist and womanist analyses of U.S. militarism that challenge the ongoing U.S. neoliberal military-industrial complex and its multivalent violence that destroys people’s lives, especially women and other vulnerable populations. It highlights the intentional critique of U.S. militarism from feminist/womanist perspectives that seek to show the ways in which gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, and violence intersect to threaten women’s lives, especially women of color’s lives, and the broader environment upon which women’s lives are dependent. Most of all, this volume challenges the readers to understand the U.S. as the warfare, counterterror, carceral state and its devastating effects on the everyday lives of women, especially women of color, locally, nationally, and globally. This volume also helps readers understand the racialized gendered impacts of U.S. militarism in conjunction with the ongoing global economies of dispossession and militarized violence across the borders of nation-states. Interrogating U.S. military interventions in “other” countries can show how the U.S. War on Terror directly affects U.S. “domestic” affairs and daily lives in the United States.

This book provides a critical feminist analysis of the Korean Protestant Right’s gendered politics. Specifically, the volume explores the Protestant Right’s responses and reactions to the presumed weakening of hegemonic masculinity in Korea’s post-hypermasculine developmentalism context. Nami Kim examines three phenomena: Father School (an evangelical men’s manhood and fatherhood restoration movement), the anti-LGBT movement, and Islamophobia/anti-Muslim racism. Although these three phenomena may look unrelated, Kim asserts that they represent the Protestant Right’s distinct yet interrelated ways of engaging the contested hegemonic masculinity in Korean society. The contestation over hegemonic masculinity is a common thread that runs through and connects these three phenomena. The ways in which the Protestant Right has engaged the contested hegemonic masculinity have been in relation to “others,” such as women, sexual minorities, gender nonconforming people, and racial, ethnic, and religious minorities.

This book provides a critical feminist analysis of the Korean Protestant Right’s gendered politics. Specifically, the volume explores the Protestant Right’s responses and reactions to the presumed weakening of hegemonic masculinity in Korea’s post-hypermasculine developmentalism context. Nami Kim examines three phenomena: Father School (an evangelical men’s manhood and fatherhood restoration movement), the anti-LGBT movement, and Islamophobia/anti-Muslim racism. Although these three phenomena may look unrelated, Kim asserts that they represent the Protestant Right’s distinct yet interrelated ways of engaging the contested hegemonic masculinity in Korean society. The contestation over hegemonic masculinity is a common thread that runs through and connects these three phenomena. The ways in which the Protestant Right has engaged the contested hegemonic masculinity have been in relation to “others,” such as women, sexual minorities, gender nonconforming people, and racial, ethnic, and religious minorities.