Asian American Christian theology
Topographies, trajectories, and possibilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4299746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seonju Koh (0000-0003-0599-8650, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/rec3.12373 |
| OpenAlex | W3082339750 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article introduces some of the history, thematic issues, and communities of Asian American Christian theology. "Asian American Christian theology" here is understood as a more expansive rather than narrowly defined endeavor, including the work of biblical scholars, practical theologians, ethicists, systematic theologians, and historians. Employing Edward Said's concept of Orientalism in order to situate Asian Americans as both the racial and religious "other," Asian American Christians have been simultaneously the "perpetual foreigner" and "heathen" in the white American, Christian imaginary. The article argues that Asian American Christian theology reflects this history and so vacillates in various intellectual, racial, and political spaces as a discourse invested in projects of belonging on the one hand and projects of solidarity on the other. The final section offers that a de-Orientalization of Asian American Christian theology will require an increased attention to interreligious dialog and transpacific connections, which will play critical roles in Asian American Christianity's resistance to its domestication
Asian americans · Christian Church · Christian theology · Christianity · Ethnic group · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Theology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |