Critical theology against US militarism in Asia : decolonization and deimperialization /: decolonization and deimperialization. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• 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 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.
• 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; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137480132; 1137480130
• Related ISBNs: 9781137480125; 1137480122
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 25, 2017).
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