Korean feminists in conversation with the Bible, church and society
By: edited by Kyung Sook Lee and Kyung Mi Park
Series: The Bible in the modern world -- 24; Bible in the modern world -- 24.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press; Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781906055714
Subjects: Exegese; Feministische Theologie; Feminist theology
Description: This book offers scholars and students outside Korea some insight into what forms feminist biblical interpretation takes in Korea and what approaches Korean feminists adopt for dealing with the Bible in their writing and their professional lives. The contributors to this book represent a wide spectrum of the Korean feminist Christian movement. They include university and seminary teachers, ministers, and field workers. This book is a product of their numerous meetings and discussions on the practical issues that define contemporary Korean women's lives. In it, the contributors reflect on the diverse situations modern Korean women have faced and continue to struggle with, among them, the traditional religious culture based on Confucianism, economic globalization, postcolonialism, the problems of migrant women labourers, and the trauma of being forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II. They view these situations in the light of the lives and experiences of women in the Old and New Testaments, and they look to the Bible for resources for dealing with them. This is socially engaged biblical interpretation. It goes beyond the academic study of the Bible to a wider engagement with the church and with Korean society. The volume is published in cooperation with Ewha Institute for Women's Theological Studies. (Publisher's website).
Notes: "Published in cooperation with Ewha Institute for Women's Theological Studies, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Neo-Confucian ideology in teh interpretation of the book of Ruth : toward a cross-checking hermeneutics / Kyung Sook Lee; title: Motherhood as a theological model for redemption in the Hebrew Bible / Yeong Mee Lee; title: Marriage by purchase? Mohar in the Hebrew Bible and Korean society / Eun Ae Lee; title: Reading Matthew 20.1-16 from a non-developmentalist perspective / Kyung mi Park; title: Embracing life and the Bible : toward a hermeneurics of compassion in detachment / Hyunju Bae; title: Our (neither) mother and (nor) father in heaven : a postcolonial reading of the Lord's Prayer / Seong Hee Kim; title: Personal reflections on feminist ministry as a transforming power / Seong Hee Kim; title: Migrant women and intermarriage in Korea : looking at human rights with help from the book of Ruth / Kuk Yom Han; title: Women's leadership fragmented : examples in teh Bible and the Korean church / Yani Yoo; title: Lessons about healing : Korean comfort women and the hemorrhaging woman of Mark 5 / Mi Kang Yang.