Critical theology against US militarism in Asia : decolonization and deimperialization / Nami Kim, Wonhee Anne Joh, editors.
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 Pa...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Critical Theology Against US Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization; US Militarism in Asia; The Myth of American Exceptionalism; Why Critical Christian Theology?; Scope of the Volume; Notes; Contents; Author Biographies; Chapter 1: Postcolonial Loss: Collective Grief in the Ruins of Militarized Terror; The Korean War and Aftermath; A Postcolonial Perspective on Collective Trauma; Unmourned Postcolonial Grief; At the Cross: Trauma, Terror, Grief, and Mourning; Conclusion: The Specter of the Cross; Notes.
- Chapter 2: Militarism, Masculinism, and Martyrdom: Conditional Citizenship for (Asian) AmericansIntroduction; Screen Messages from Hollywood; Farewell Through Arms ... Plus a (Red?) Badge of Citizenship; Citizens as Macho Patriots; Christian Martyrdom and the Role of Religion; Be-Longing and In-Gesting; Similarly Conditioned, Dissimilar Consequences; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: Demilitarizing Haunted Genealogies as Transgenerational Affective Work of the Holy Ghost; Notes.
- Chapter 4: (Un)Making Mothers, Orphans, and Transnational Adoptees: The Afterlife of the Vietnam War in Aimee Phan's We Should Never MeetMaking Meaning of the Vietnam War; (Un)Making Mothers; The Orphan-Refugee: Alternate Subjects of War, Diaspora, and American Citizenry; Return and Reckoning; Notes; Chapter 5: A Mission of Biopower: The United States Colonizes the Philippines; Biopower as a Mindset for Governing Populations and Bodies1; The Racialization of the US Occupation; The Emergence of Biopower; Establishing the Biopolitical Archipelago; The "Pedagogic Invasion"; The Gospel of Hygiene.
- NotesChapter 6: Killing Time; Boredom and Atrocity; Time and the Ordinary; Notes; Chapter 7: The Impasse of Telling the "Moral Story": Transnational Christian Human Rights Advocacy for North Koreans; Introduction; Conservative Christian Advocacy for "Persecuted" Christians Around the World; American Exceptionalism and (South) Korean Exceptionalism; The Legacy of Anticommunism; Victims, Villains, and Saviors in Christian Human Rights Discourse; Postscript: "The Danger of a Single Story"79; Notes; Chapter 8: A Thief, a Woman, a People of the Land: Exploring Chamorro Strategies of Incarnation.
- Locating BodiesFirst Incarnation: The Thief's Specter; Second Incarnation: A Lady Enduring; Thief and Lady Reincarnated: Bodies Speaking Against Themselves; Alter-Native Arrivals and Articulations; Notes; Chapter 9: Faith-Based Popular Resistance to the Naval Base in Gangjeong of Jeju: Transforming Militarized US-Korea Relations for Peace and Justice; Introduction; Faith and Popular Resistance; Jeju, an Island of Peace and Island of Massacre: US-Korean Imperialism in Jeju; Jeju 4.3 and the Naval Base in Gangjeong Village; Feminine Faces of Faith in Gangjeong Peace Activism.