Religious language and Asian American hybridity. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Julius-Kei Kato.
• Authors: Kato, Julius-Kei
• Contents: Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: What Does Hybridity Have to Do with Religious Language? How Asian North American Hybridity Could Converse with Religion Today; The Monocultural Mindset and Hybridity; Hybridity and Religious Language; This Work's Particular Goal; A Road Map for the Book; Notes; Part I: Foundations; Chapter 2: Our Building Blocks: Hybridity, Diaspora, Hermeneutics, and the Identity of the Interpreter; Hybridity and Diaspora; Interpretation16; The Particular Hybrid Style of Interpretation at Work Here; Notes. Chapter 3: The What and What-not of Asian North American Hermeneutics: What Mk 2:23-28 and l'affaire Peter Phan IllustratePlucking Grain on the Sabbath; The Peter Phan Affair; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: A Thick Description of Hybrid Theological Interpreters; "Asian" and "Asian North American"; Telling the Story-Biography as Theology; Peter Phan: Accidental Theologian "Betwixt and Between" East and West13; Location: "Betwixt and Between" (aka "Hybrid State"); Asian North American Interpreters and Their "Preunderstandings"; More Specifically "Diasporic" or "In-Between" Characteristics. Sense of Being an "Other" as a Hermeneutical KeyResistance and Struggle; Liberation/Decolonization; The Interpreting Self as Fluid, Flexible, Multiple; More Specifically "Hybrid" (In-both/Balancing) Characteristics; Multi-perspectival, Dialectical, Narrative Thinking; Negotiation, Balancing, Harmony; Valuing the Wisdom Learned from Asian Cultures; Interreligious Dimension; Consequences of the Confluence of Diaspora/In-Between and Hybridity/In-Both; Suspicion and Retrieval along a Hermeneutical Journey of Engagement/Exile; Reality as Construction; Transcendence and Interstitial Integrity. Critical Engagement with "Others"Affirmation of Diversity and Plurality; Affirmation of the Other's Distinctiveness; Practical Mediation: Mode of Being in the World; Notes; Chapter 5: Should There Really Be an "End of Faith"? Hybridity and Sam Harris's Proposal for an "End" to Religion; The Problem; Sam Harris's Take on Religion and Faith; Hybridity as Phenomenon and Paradigm; Hybridity and the Suggestion to "End Religion"; How Would Hybridity-as-Paradigm Deal with Religion?; Concluding Thoughts; Notes. Chapter 6: Talking Back to Our Parents: What Asian North American Hybridity Can Suggest to Asia"Talking Back" to Asia; Many Asian Christianities Are Like Hybrid Entities; Endo Shusaku's Deep River; Monocultural Lens to View a Hybrid Entity; Asian North Americans: Talking Back to Their Asian Parents; Never the Twain Shall Meet?33; Notes; Part II: Hybridity with Reference to Particular Themes; Chapter 7: The New Testament Canon as Hybrid; Introduction: A Concrete Image for this Chapter; Questions to Christian Canon; The New Testament Canon's Hybrid Nature; Diversity-Hybridity in the Canon.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 200; Asian Americans -- Religious life -- Social conditions; Asian Americans -- Religious aspects -- Intellectual life; RELIGION -- Comparative Religion; RELIGION -- Essays; RELIGION -- Reference; Asian American theology; Asian Americans -- Intellectual life; Asian Americans -- Religious life; Cultural fusion; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137582157; 1137582154; 1137582146; 9781137582140
• Related ISBNs: 9781137582140; 1137582146
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 19, 2016).
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