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Religious language and Asian American hybridity /
Julius-Kei Kato lets the theories and experiences of Asian American hybridity converse with and bear upon some aspects of Christian biblical and theological language. Hybridity has become a key feature of today's globalized world and is, of course, a key concept in postcolonial thought. However...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Colección: | Asian Christianity in the diaspora.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.