Asian Feminist Biblical Studies : Perspectives and Methods
Asian Feminist Biblical Studies : Perspectives and Methods

Author: Maggie Low

Publisher: Divinity School of Chung Chi College, CUHK

Published: 2023-10-12

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9627137804

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Groundbreaking and inspiring, this book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Asian feminist biblical criticism. It is a gift to the Asian churches and to the theological community. I highly recommend it to all who search for biblical insights to empower women and men to work for justice. --- Kwok Pui-lan, Dean’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University This is a superb collection of the different approaches of feminist biblical scholars in Asia. I found it invigorating and thought-provoking to learn about the multiple ways in which Asian feminists made their "exodus" from Western biblical studies to interpret this foundational text in their own unique contexts. --- Gale A. Yee, Nancy W. King Professor of Biblical Studies Emerita, Episcopal Divinity School This collection of essays by mostly younger Asian biblical scholars is a welcome addition to a small but growing body of Asian feminist studies. The diversity of perspectives, methodologies and creative interpretations makes it an ideal introductory text for anyone wishing to learn more about Asian feminism. --- Simon Chan, Editor, Asia Journal of Theology

Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion
Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion

Author: Kwok Pui-lan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 3030368181

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This book presents personal narratives and collective ethnography of the emergence and development of Asian and Asian American women’s scholarship in theology and religious studies. It demonstrates how the authors’ religious scholarship is based on an embodied epistemology influenced by their social locations. Contributors reflect on their understanding of their identity and how this changed over time, the contribution of Asian and Asian American women to the scholarship work that they do, and their hopes for the future of their fields of study. The volume is multireligious and intergenerational, and is divided into four parts: identities and intellectual journeys, expanding knowledge, integrating knowledge and practice, and dialogue across generations.

Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics
Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics

Author: Gale A. Yee

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-07-28

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1725263408

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Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial/ethnic population in the United States. Especially since the 1990s, readings by Asian American biblical scholars have been increasing to meet the particular theological and pastoral concerns of their Christian racial/ethnic seminarians, clergy, and churches. Gale A. Yee is one of their major interpreters, becoming the first Asian American and first woman of color president of the oldest professional guild devoted to the critical study of the Bible, the Society of Biblical Literature. This book is an anthology of her major, ground-breaking essays on Asian American theorizing and analysis of the biblical text. It is a retrospective of her growth of over almost three decades in wrestling with questions like “What is Asian American biblical hermeneutics and how does one undertake it?”

Feminist New Testament Studies
Feminist New Testament Studies

Author: K. Wicker

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1137112042

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This volume is an engaging and provocative introduction to Feminist Biblical Studies. The authors draw upon their own social, cultural and religious backgrounds and experiences in reading the New Testament as feminists in the context of globalization. They provide intentional interpretations of biblical texts that cast gender, race, class and power relationships as issues inherent in both the content and context of scripture and its interpretation. The essays call into question feminist social engagement that does not extend beyond academic halls, churches and Christians, suggesting directions for future research and teaching in Feminist Biblical Studies.

Breaking Silence
Breaking Silence

Author: Meehyun Chung

Publisher: ISPCK

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9788172149260

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Contributed research papers.

T&T Clark Handbook of Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics
T&T Clark Handbook of Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics

Author: Uriah Y. Kim

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-05-30

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 0567672611

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The first reference resource on how Asian Americans are currently reading and interpreting the Bible, this volume also serves a valuable role in both developing and disseminating what can be termed as Asian American biblical hermeneutics. The volume works from the important background that Asian Americans are the fastest growing ethnic/racial minority population in the USA, and that 42% of this group identifies as Christian. This provides a useful starting point from which to examine what may be distinctive about Asian American approaches to the Bible. Part 1 of the Handbook describes six major ethic groups that make up 85% of Asian population (by country of origin: China, Philippines, Indian Subcontinent, Vietnam, Korea, Japan) and outlines the specific concerns each group has when its members read the Bible. Part 2 of the Handbook examines major critical methods in biblical interpretation and suggests adjustments that may be helpful for Asian Americans to make when they are interpreting the Bible. Finally, Part 3 provides 25 interpretations by Asian American biblical scholars on specific texts in the Bible, using what they consider to be Asian American hermeneutics. Taken together the Handbook interprets the Bible both with and for the Asian American communities.

Feminist Biblical Studies in the Twentieth Century
Feminist Biblical Studies in the Twentieth Century

Author: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

Published: 2014-06-26

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1589839218

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Chart the development of feminist approaches and theories of interpretation during the period when women first joined the ranks of biblical scholars This collection of essays on feminist biblical studies in the twentieth century seeks to explore four areas of inquiry demanding further investigation. In the first section, articles chart the beginnings and developments of feminist biblical studies as a conversation among feminists around the world. The second section introduces, reviews, and discusses the hermeneutic religious spaces created by feminist biblical studies. The third segment discusses academic methods of reading and interpretation that dismantle androcentric language and kyriarchal authority. The fourth section returns to the first with work that transgresses academic boundaries in order to exemplify the transforming, inspiring, and institutionalizing feminist work that has been and is being done to change religious mindsets of domination and to enable wo/men to engage in critical readings of the Bible. Features: Essays examine the rupture or break in the malestream reception history of the Bible Exploration of the term feminism in different social-cultural and theoretical-religious locations Authors from around the world present research and future directions for research challenging the next generation of feminist interpreters

Body and Sexuality
Body and Sexuality

Author: Ecclesia of Women in Asia. Biennial Conference

Publisher: Ateneo University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9789715505161

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"This collection of essays is a fruit of the 2004 conference of the ecclesia of Women in Asia (EWA), a forum of Catholic women doing theology in Asia."--P. [4] of cover.

Introducing Asian Feminist Theology
Introducing Asian Feminist Theology

Author: Kwok Pui-lan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2000-07-01

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0567273555

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Asian women comprise more than a quarter of the world's population, and the forms in which they express feminist theology are many and varied, extending through grassroots movements, theological networks, ecumenical conferences and journals. Those involved in the process include community organizers, theological students, church leaders and social activists, among whom even the concept 'feminism' assumes many definitions and substitutes. Kwok Pui-lan's introduction to this huge subject begins with a survey of the social, political and cultural contexts of Asian women's experiences, and then traces the emergence of feminist consciousness and the organization of women's networks. She describes the resources of Asian feminist theology and the appropriation of Asian religious traditions, and considers the reconstructions of the concept of God in inclusive categories. Finally, she summarizes Asian women's critique of the patriarchal church and outlines the search for a new spirituality that express women's embodiedness and sexuality.

Migration and Diaspora
Migration and Diaspora

Author: Hisako Kinukawa

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

Published: 2014-09-18

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1628370092

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Engage and explore readings from a multi-religious, globalized, multicultural region The papers in this collection were presented at the third meeting of the Society of Asian Biblical Studies held at the Sabah Theological Seminary, Malaysia in 2012. The essays represent the work of women/feminist scholars in biblical hermeneutics in this region who have raised questions against traditional, male-centered interpretations, offering distinct perspectives based on their experiences of pain, subjugation, and a forced sacrificial philosophy of life. Features: Articles focused on finding justice for women through dialogue with biblical texts Reflections on migration, diaspora, displacement, discrimination, and conditions generated by poverty and systemic oppression Five essays from women in China, Japan, and Korea