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Synopsis: In a time of life-and-death challenges to the human
spirit--global economics, nuclear dangers, environmental threats,
and religious polarization and war--Christians must look for
resources that provide new insights of God's power and care for all
people. What are the forms of suffering and hope in the world
today, and how can Christians respond with healing resources?
Korean Christians have unique contributions to make to our
understanding of pastoral theology and counseling. Pastoral
counselors and theologians from the United States should look to
the South Korean Christian churches and other Asian churches for
conversation partners about the nature of care and healing in
today's world. In this book, the authors explore important
ideas--such as han, jeong, and salim--from Korean history and
culture that can inform the healing ministries of the churches.
Synopsis: "Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology makes a
significant contribution to the field of pastoral care and pastoral
theology in the United States . . . The authors introduce Koreans
who are actively searching for God's spirit at work in healing,
liberation, and reconciliation . . . It is like seeing a newly
created world of God, in which all diversities dance together."
--Heesung Chung, Professor of Pastoral Counseling, Ewha Womans
University "This book is full of insightful and enthralling
information about Korean cultural values . . . Poling and Kim
present invaluable tools for pastoral counselors, Christian
leaders, and theologians to enrich the horizons of pastoral
theology and counseling at the global level." --Andrew S. Park,
Professor of Theology and Ethics, United Theological Seminary
"Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology is an excellent resource
for those interested in finding the way back to practices of
spirituality of care that foster sustainability, interdependency,
justice-making, healing, and freedom without violence. Critical and
constructive in their analysis, Poling and Kim present a promising
intercultural and interreligious perspective for Christian pastoral
theology through the particular lens of Korean Christianity."
--Wonhee Anne Joh, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology,
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary "We have learned that how
to conduct one's cultural experiences, not as a footnote, but as a
main body of shaping one's pastoral theology, has been no less
significant to us than how to conduct universal, psychological
inquiry. I do believe Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology might
be a timely, great asset to the broader, main body of building
pastoral theology." --Soo-Young Kwon, Professor of Pastoral
Theology, United Graduate School of Theology Author Biography:
James Newton Poling is a retired Presbyterian minister and
Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care, and Counseling at
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He
is author of Rethinking Faith: A Constructive Practical Theology
(2011). HeeSun Kim is a Presbyterian minister and PhD candidate in
pastoral care and counseling, with a feminist theology minor, at
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Kim has been a pastor in
Korea and in the United States.
The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male
actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The
contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives
by emphasizing the social history, artistic practices, and symbolic
meanings of female performers in popular music of Asia. Women
surfaced as popular icons in different guises in different Asian
countries through different routes of circulation. Often, these
women established prominent careers within colonial conditions,
which saw Asian societies in rapid transition and the vernacular
and familiar articulated with the novel and the foreign. These
female performers were not merely symbols of times that were
rapidly changing. Nor were they simply the personification of
global historical changes. Female entertainers, positioned at the
margins of intersecting fields of activities, created something
hitherto unknown: they were artistic pioneers of new music, new
cinema, new forms of dance and theater, and new behavior,
lifestyles, and morals. They were active agents in the creation of
local performance cultures, of a newly emerging mass culture, and
the rise of a region-wide and globally oriented entertainment
industry. Vamping the Stage is the first book-length study of
women, modernity, and popular music in Asia, showcasing
cutting-edge research conducted by scholars whose methods and
perspectives draw from such diverse fields as anthropology, Asian
studies, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and film studies. Led
by an impressive introduction written by Weintraub and Barendregt,
fourteen contributors analyze the many ways that women performers
supported, challenged, and transgressed representations of existing
gendered norms in the entertainment industries of China, Japan,
India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Placing women’s voices in social and historical contexts, the
essays explore salient discourses, representations, meanings, and
politics of “voice” in Asian popular music. Historicizing the
artistic sounds, lyrical texts, and visual images of female
performers, the essays reveal how women used popular music to shape
the ideas, practices, and meanings of modernity in various Asian
contexts and time frames. The ascendency of women as performers
paralleled, and in some cases generated, developments in wider
society such as suffrage, social and sexual liberation, women as
business entrepreneurs and independent income earners, and
particularly as models for new life styles. Women’s voices,
mediated through new technologies of film and the phonograph,
changed the soundscape of global popular music and resonate today
in all spheres of modern life.
The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male
actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The
contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives
by emphasizing the social history, artistic practices, and symbolic
meanings of female performers in popular music of Asia. Women
surfaced as popular icons in different guises in different Asian
countries through different routes of circulation. Often, these
women established prominent careers within colonial conditions,
which saw Asian societies in rapid transition and the vernacular
and familiar articulated with the novel and the foreign. These
female performers were not merely symbols of times that were
rapidly changing. Nor were they simply the personification of
global historical changes. Female entertainers, positioned at the
margins of intersecting fields of activities, created something
hitherto unknown: they were artistic pioneers of new music, new
cinema, new forms of dance and theater, and new behavior,
lifestyles, and morals. They were active agents in the creation of
local performance cultures, of a newly emerging mass culture, and
the rise of a region-wide and globally oriented entertainment
industry. Vamping the Stage is the first book-length study of
women, modernity, and popular music in Asia, showcasing
cutting-edge research conducted by scholars whose methods and
perspectives draw from such diverse fields as anthropology, Asian
studies, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and film studies. Led
by an impressive introduction written by Weintraub and Barendregt,
fourteen contributors analyze the many ways that women performers
supported, challenged, and transgressed representations of existing
gendered norms in the entertainment industries of China, Japan,
India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Placing women's voices in social and historical contexts, the
essays explore salient discourses, representations, meanings, and
politics of "voice" in Asian popular music. Historicizing the
artistic sounds, lyrical texts, and visual images of female
performers, the essays reveal how women used popular music to shape
the ideas, practices, and meanings of modernity in various Asian
contexts and time frames. The ascendency of women as performers
paralleled, and in some cases generated, developments in wider
society such as suffrage, social and sexual liberation, women as
business entrepreneurs and independent income earners, and
particularly as models for new life styles. Women's voices,
mediated through new technologies of film and the phonograph,
changed the soundscape of global popular music and resonate today
in all spheres of modern life.
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