Cover; Postcolonial Resistance and Asian Theology; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Asian theologies and the postcolonial; 2 A discursive history of Asian theologies; 3 Reconceiving resistance: postcolonialism and resistance; 4 Cracks within a missionary discourse; 5 Resistance and Y.T. Wu's divine immanentism; 6 Resistance and Jesuology/Christology of Leichuen Wu and T.C. Chao; Conclusion; References; Index
Summary
Presenting a fundamental re-thinking of Asian theology, this book focuses on theological indigenization in Asia in light of the postcolonial theory of resistance advanced by Homi K. Bhabha, among others. Two types of anti-colonialist resistance within Asian theologies are identified and interrogated. The first is nationalistic in kind, operating from a theological language that is binaristic and oppositional. The second is illustrated by that which was mounted by the three Chinese Christian thinkers whose indigenous theologies are analysed in this book as case studies. This se
