Eliana Ah-Rum Ku
Biographic Data
| ID | 986194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eliana Ah-Rum Ku |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eliana Ah-Rum |
| FAMILY NAME | Ku |
| SIGNATURE | KU E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emmanuel College - Massachusetts |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9795-4892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading Jeremiah 29
Reading Jeremiah 29:4–7 dialogically, this study situates the passage at the crossroads of the book’s textual–historical multivocality, intertextual conversations, and contemporary experiences of multiplaced belonging. It contends that common exile–return templates—presuming one homeland and linear restoration—are unsettled by a present-tense ethic of inhabiting place that holds together memory, rupture, and responsibility. Framing multivocality …
Empathetic Dialogue as Embodied Pedagogy in an Era of Digital Reckoning 1
This study explores how Jeong’s ethics—rooted in sustained emotional presence and relational attunement—can inform empathetic dialogue as embodied pedagogy in the digital age. In response to the reactive moral climate of cancel culture, the article examines storytelling, imagination, and safe space practices as ethical interventions. Drawing from affect theory, moral psychology, and Korean emotional–relational ethics, it argues that Jeong enables…
Remaining After Ruin
How do survivors mourn when violence controls movement, speech, and public grief? This article reads lament as a political–theological practice that keeps the dead publicly addressable under forced (im)mobilities—conditions in which some are deported, disappeared, or killed while others are compelled to remain amid ruins, surveillance, and stigma. Through a comparative reading of Lamentations and Han Kang’s Human Acts, this study develops “fourth…
The Agency of Preaching
Preaching in a multicultural context calls for hospitality to ensure that diverse cultures and experiences are acknowledged and valued. Embodying hospitality in preaching means that participants engage as co-hosts and co-guests, contributing to a shared vision of hospitality within the community. This opposes the asymmetrical, one-directional power dynamics that perpetuate the host-guest dichotomy in the gospel. This research argues that when Chr…
Lament ‘With’ Dear Earth
This study examines the role of religious education in fostering commitments to the health and responsibility of the entire Earth organism, especially in the context of inhabiting a damaged land. It delves into the concept of sympoiesis and the Korean concept of yeomul as a life attitude to respond to Earth’s suffering. This research advocates for lament as an empathetic and epistemological performance that not only emotionally connects with all …
Uninterpret-Able
The pericope of demonic possession in Mark 5 invites us to reject a simplistic aversion to uninterpretable experiences. Engaging with Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection encourages readers to recognize that embracing heterogeneous otherness can create new opportunities for both individuals and communities. This study critiques the limited and normative conception of mentally diverse bodies as being confined within a single boundary, and it repr…
Lament, Hospitality, and Living Together with ‘Our’ Children
This article explores how religious education can access and embrace children with refugee/internally displaced people (IDP) backgrounds to address the issues associated with feelings of loss safely and to contribute to a socially just framework. This article makes practical recommendations for religious educators to respond better to the suffering of children who experience violence, oppression, and control, and it invites the formation of commu…
Towards an Asian decolonial Christian hospitality
The community of faith and the wider community live in multicultural and transnational realities. Because the people of a community are entangled with various contexts, the identity of a community is fluid, porous, hybrid, and constantly changing. In response to a motley environment, faith communities need a multi-voiced and interactive ministry that is deeply aware of and involved in the knowledge and experiences of those who are historically ma…
Lament-Driven preaching for a 戀 ( Yeon ) community
Covid-19 exacerbated the xenophobia and hate crime associated with racism in North America, which triggered a race-based trauma. However, studies are rare that focus specifically on the suffering that Asian Americans have endured. How might a faith community envision a wholesome community while holding and honoring the experience of Asian American pain? This study suggests a form of lament-driven preaching for a 戀 (Yeon) community that has interc…
Challenging Texts With Violence Toward Women
Postcolonial feminist hermeneutics presents many challenges to the traditional interpretation of Bible passages. Recognizing the ethical issues in Old Testament metaphors about unclean and unfaithful women, readers now contemplate how to understand and accept in modern times these texts that reveal disenfranchised and excluded voices. This study deals with the violence inflicted on women under the guise of reasonable punishment and its unavoidabl…
The Hermeneutics of Hospitality for Epistemic Justice
Although we live in a diasporic world, we need interpretive strategies for reading the Bible through the eyes of history and the experiences of marginalized groups, most of whom are still on the margins. Attempts to bring diverse voices without exclusion, discrimination, and disregard into biblical interpretation in the diasporic world have been linked to the study of epistemic injustice. I consider signifiers of those norms that make the power/k…
Les Miller. Northern Light
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Being Educated and Practicing Communal Lament for Co-Creating a Tradition of Memory, Resistance, and Care in Liturgy
The Bible tells keeners to teach lament to a faith community and to the daughters of the community when evil and injustice are rampant. This intriguing demand draws the attention of the faith community to how lament works and how it can become a community practice to deal with suffering. This study specifically challenges the adequacy of the liturgy and the response of the faith community to violence against women. Reading Jeremiah 9 and Judges 1…
Jerusha Matsen Neal. The Overshadowed Preacher
"Jerusha Matsen Neal. The Overshadowed Preacher: Mary, the Spirit, and the Labor of Proclamation." Toronto Journal of Theology, 37(2), pp. 238–239
Uninterpret-Able
The pericope of demonic possession in Mark 5 invites us to reject a simplistic aversion to uninterpretable experiences. Engaging with Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection encourages readers to recognize that embracing heterogeneous otherness can create new opportunities for both individuals and communities. This study critiques the limited and normative conception of mentally diverse bodies as being confined within a single boundary, and it repr…
Jerusha Matsen Neal. The Overshadowed Preacher
"Jerusha Matsen Neal. The Overshadowed Preacher: Mary, the Spirit, and the Labor of Proclamation." Toronto Journal of Theology, 37(2), pp. 238–239
Les Miller. Northern Light
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Being Educated and Practicing Communal Lament for Co-Creating a Tradition of Memory, Resistance, and Care in Liturgy
The Bible tells keeners to teach lament to a faith community and to the daughters of the community when evil and injustice are rampant. This intriguing demand draws the attention of the faith community to how lament works and how it can become a community practice to deal with suffering. This study specifically challenges the adequacy of the liturgy and the response of the faith community to violence against women. Reading Jeremiah 9 and Judges 1…
Lament, Hospitality, and Living Together with ‘Our’ Children
This article explores how religious education can access and embrace children with refugee/internally displaced people (IDP) backgrounds to address the issues associated with feelings of loss safely and to contribute to a socially just framework. This article makes practical recommendations for religious educators to respond better to the suffering of children who experience violence, oppression, and control, and it invites the formation of commu…
Towards an Asian decolonial Christian hospitality
The community of faith and the wider community live in multicultural and transnational realities. Because the people of a community are entangled with various contexts, the identity of a community is fluid, porous, hybrid, and constantly changing. In response to a motley environment, faith communities need a multi-voiced and interactive ministry that is deeply aware of and involved in the knowledge and experiences of those who are historically ma…
Lament-Driven preaching for a 戀 ( Yeon ) community
Covid-19 exacerbated the xenophobia and hate crime associated with racism in North America, which triggered a race-based trauma. However, studies are rare that focus specifically on the suffering that Asian Americans have endured. How might a faith community envision a wholesome community while holding and honoring the experience of Asian American pain? This study suggests a form of lament-driven preaching for a 戀 (Yeon) community that has interc…
Challenging Texts With Violence Toward Women
Postcolonial feminist hermeneutics presents many challenges to the traditional interpretation of Bible passages. Recognizing the ethical issues in Old Testament metaphors about unclean and unfaithful women, readers now contemplate how to understand and accept in modern times these texts that reveal disenfranchised and excluded voices. This study deals with the violence inflicted on women under the guise of reasonable punishment and its unavoidabl…
The Hermeneutics of Hospitality for Epistemic Justice
Although we live in a diasporic world, we need interpretive strategies for reading the Bible through the eyes of history and the experiences of marginalized groups, most of whom are still on the margins. Attempts to bring diverse voices without exclusion, discrimination, and disregard into biblical interpretation in the diasporic world have been linked to the study of epistemic injustice. I consider signifiers of those norms that make the power/k…
Lament ‘With’ Dear Earth
This study examines the role of religious education in fostering commitments to the health and responsibility of the entire Earth organism, especially in the context of inhabiting a damaged land. It delves into the concept of sympoiesis and the Korean concept of yeomul as a life attitude to respond to Earth’s suffering. This research advocates for lament as an empathetic and epistemological performance that not only emotionally connects with all …
Uninterpret-Able
The pericope of demonic possession in Mark 5 invites us to reject a simplistic aversion to uninterpretable experiences. Engaging with Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection encourages readers to recognize that embracing heterogeneous otherness can create new opportunities for both individuals and communities. This study critiques the limited and normative conception of mentally diverse bodies as being confined within a single boundary, and it repr…
The Agency of Preaching
Preaching in a multicultural context calls for hospitality to ensure that diverse cultures and experiences are acknowledged and valued. Embodying hospitality in preaching means that participants engage as co-hosts and co-guests, contributing to a shared vision of hospitality within the community. This opposes the asymmetrical, one-directional power dynamics that perpetuate the host-guest dichotomy in the gospel. This research argues that when Chr…
Reading Jeremiah 29
Reading Jeremiah 29:4–7 dialogically, this study situates the passage at the crossroads of the book’s textual–historical multivocality, intertextual conversations, and contemporary experiences of multiplaced belonging. It contends that common exile–return templates—presuming one homeland and linear restoration—are unsettled by a present-tense ethic of inhabiting place that holds together memory, rupture, and responsibility. Framing multivocality …
Empathetic Dialogue as Embodied Pedagogy in an Era of Digital Reckoning 1
This study explores how Jeong’s ethics—rooted in sustained emotional presence and relational attunement—can inform empathetic dialogue as embodied pedagogy in the digital age. In response to the reactive moral climate of cancel culture, the article examines storytelling, imagination, and safe space practices as ethical interventions. Drawing from affect theory, moral psychology, and Korean emotional–relational ethics, it argues that Jeong enables…
Remaining After Ruin
How do survivors mourn when violence controls movement, speech, and public grief? This article reads lament as a political–theological practice that keeps the dead publicly addressable under forced (im)mobilities—conditions in which some are deported, disappeared, or killed while others are compelled to remain amid ruins, surveillance, and stigma. Through a comparative reading of Lamentations and Han Kang’s Human Acts, this study develops “fourth…
Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Lament (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works)