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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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New approaches to religion and power
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New approaches to religion and power.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 Pacific. Contributors explore the effects of US imperialist militarism on the formation of Asian and Asian American collective subjectivity and inter/intra subjectivity. The book investigates the ways in which Christianity (broadly defined), in its own complexity, has been complicit in maintaining and reinforcing US imperialist military agendas in both national and international contexts. Conversely, the volume also discusses the various sites and instances where Christianity has managed to serve as a force of resistance against US imperialist militarism. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Militarism -- Asia -- Religious aspects.
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Militarism. |
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Asia. |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Asia.
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United States. |
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International relations. |
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Christianity. |
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Cultural studies. |
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Religious issues & debates. |
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Christian theology. |
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RELIGION -- Religion, Politics & State. |
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. |
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Diplomatic relations. |
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Militarism -- Religious aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kim, Nami, editor.
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Joh, Wonhee Anne, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Critical theology against US militarism in Asia. [New York] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016] 9781137480125 1137480122 (OCoLC)934502354 |
| ISBN |
9781137480132 (electronic book) |
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1137480130 (electronic book) |
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9781349693801 (print) |
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1349693804 |
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9781349693795 (print) |
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1349693790 |
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9781137480125 |
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1137480122 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/978-1-137-48013-2 |
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