What is Asian American biblical hermeneutics?
Subtitle: reading the New Testament
By: Tat-Siong Benny Liew
Series: Intersections : Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies
Publisher: UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu; University of Hawai'i Press; Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780824831622
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Asian Americans -- Religion; Theology, Doctrinal
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: What is Asian American biblical hermeneutics?; title: Medi(t)ations on and for a conversation; title: Reading with Yin Yang eyes : negotiating the ideological dilemma of a Chinese American biblical hermeneutics; title: Ambiguous admittance : consent and descent in Johns community of upward mobility; title: Overlapping (his)stories : reading Acts in Chinese America; title: Redressing bodies in Corinth : racial/ethnic politics and religious difference in the context of empire; title: Melancholia in diaspora : reading Paul's psycho-political operatives in 1 Corinthians; title: Immigrants and intertexts : biblical in(ter)ventions in Theresa Hak Kyung Chas Dictee; title: Telling times in (Asian) America : extraordinary poetics, everyday politics, and endless paradoxes