Postcolonial Politics and Theology seeks to reform and reimagine
the field of political theology-uprooting it from the colonial
soil-using the comparative lenses of postcolonial politics and
theology to bring attention to the realities of the Global South.
Kwok Pui-lan traces the history of the political impacts of Western
theological development, especially developments in the U.S.
context, and the need to shift these interlocking fields toward
non-Western traditions in theory and practice. A special focus of
the book is on the changing sociopolitical realities of American
Empire and Sino-American competition, illustrated in Donald Trump's
slogan of "Make America Great Again" and Xi Jinping's hope for a
"China Dream." The shifting of U.S. and Asian relationships
highlights the need to move our theological and political
categories away from a vision of strongman domination and toward a
postmodern, postcolonial, and transnational world, especially
exemplified in the Asia Pacific context. Throughout, Kwok overturns
the idea of centering one cultural framework and marginalizing
others in favor of living into a multiplicity of deeply contextual
theologies. She explores how these theologies are being developed
in global, postcolonial contexts, through struggles for democracy
and civil disobedience in Hong Kong, by efforts to reclaim selfhood
and sexual identity from exploitative colonial desire, through the
work of interreligious solidarity and peacebuilding, and in the
practice of earth care in the face of ecological crisis.
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