Critical theology against US militarism in Asia : decolonization and deimperialization /: decolonization and deimperialization. ([2016])
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- Book
- Title:
- Critical theology against US militarism in Asia : decolonization and deimperialization /: decolonization and deimperialization. ([2016])
- Main Title:
- Critical theology against US militarism in Asia : decolonization and deimperialization
- Further Information:
- Note: Nami Kim, Wonhee Anne Joh, editors.
- Editors:
- Kim, Nami
Joh, Wonhee Anne - 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 USIntroduction: 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. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 355.0213
Religion
Militarism -- Asia -- Religious aspects
RELIGION -- Religion, Politics & State
HISTORY -- Military -- Other
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science
Diplomatic relations
Militarism -- Religious aspects
Religion -- Christianity -- General
Social Science -- General
Social Science -- Sociology of Religion
Christianity
Cultural studies
Religious issues & debates
Theology
Christianity
Religion and sociology
Religion -- Christian Theology -- General
Christian theology
United States -- Foreign relations -- Asia
Asia
United States
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- English
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- 9781137480132
1137480130 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781137480125
1137480122 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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