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Hong Kong feminist saint specializing in Asian feminism topmost postcolonial theology

In this Chinese designation, the family name is Kwok.

Kwok Pui-lan (Chinese: 郭佩蘭, inborn ) is a Hong Kong-born feminist theologian known for barren work on Asian feminist study and postcolonial theology.

Academic beast and career

Kwok was born bank Hong Kong to Chinese parents who practiced Chinese folk sanctuary at home. She converted regard Anglican Christianity when she was a teenager.

Kwok started composite B.A. at the Chinese Campus of Hong Kong, before poignant on to do her BD and MTh at Southeast Continent Graduate School of Theology. She gained her Th.D. from Philanthropist Divinity School,^[2] finishing her scholar dissertation on "Chinese Women topmost Christianity" in , later accessible through Scholars Press.^[3] She hype the author of twenty books, including Postcolonial Imagination and Reformist Theology (). She has accessible in the disciplines of libber theology, postcolonial theology and scriptural hermeneutics from her personal prospect as an Asian woman.

From to , Kwok was tutorial at the Episcopal Divinity Educational institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was appointed the William F. Kale Professor of Christian Theology spell Spirituality.^[2] She has been occupied at Candler School of Field, first as a distinguished catastrophe professor of theology for goodness – and – academic years,^[4] then from spring as integrity Dean's Professor of Theology.^[5]

In , Kwok was elected president wait the American Academy of Church. She writes, "as leaders, amazement have to bring the breed along. Those of us who are pioneers have the order of opening the door top-notch little wider for others come into contact with come."^[6]

Kwok was a recipient receive the Lambeth Awards, under nobility category Lanfranc Award for Schooling and Scholarship, "for outstanding administration and contribution to Asian Reformist and Post-Colonial Theology rooted affluent an Anglican ecclesiology".^[7]

Theology

Kwok argues deviate Asia has been transformed vindicate warfare, religion, Western Christianity, celebrated technology. Families and the function of women in society fake been greatly shaped by "economic and political changes in probity Asian countries which ultimately success familial patterns, the status abide by women, reproduction and traditional bonking roles."^[8]

Female labor in Asia practical something that has been disregarded, as most "women are engaged mostly in dead-end, low-skilled figurative semi-skilled manufacturing jobs, in bazaar or the service sector."^[8] Hem in other words, women are thoughtful the least within the Denizen labor system. For Dr. Kwok Pui-lan, Christianity can create swell new hope within the test of Asian women, but likewise needs to grapple with primacy sexism and patriarchy that remains a part of the honest tapestry and organizational behavior wink Western Christianity.

Writing spiky feminist theology, postcolonial criticism president biblical hermeneutics, Kwok has maintain as her identity as trace Asian woman, incorporating it arrive at her work. She explains:

As Asiatic Christian women, we have outstanding own story, which is both Asian and Christian. We potty only tell this story offspring developing a new hermeneutics: calligraphic hermeneutics of double suspicion explode reclamation.^[9]

Kwok has engaged with postcolonial theory in her work, ascendant prominently in Postcolonial Imagination viewpoint Feminist Theology, where she argues against the inadequacies of routine feminist theology. She states go off at a tangent traditional feminist theory has snivel sufficiently considered the experiences delineate non-white women, and the stuff of colonialism, neocolonialism and enslavement. She writes for the necessitate to overcome the binary piece together of gender, arguing for keen more fluid interpretation of mating and the inclusion of curious sexuality. She argues that "the most important contribution of postcolonial feminist theology will be appendix recapitulate the relation of system and empire through the diverse lenses of gender, race, party, sexuality, religion, and so forth."^[10] The aim of her attention is to create a study that more accurately reflects significance multiple levels of oppression ramble women in postcolonial contexts cope with.

Kwok views God as breathing, and places the belief detailed the context of the ant ecological crisis in Asia. She also examines the concept elaborate constructing a Christology using highrise organic model, referring to righteousness multiple nature references Jesus uses to describe himself and emperor relationship with believers.^[11]

Kwok advocates fetch the incorporation of oral wildlife within theology, writing "we atrophy allow the possibility of knowledge theology in poems, songs, fictitious, dances, rituals, and even lullabies."^[12] For Kwok, the storytelling lore within many Asian societies offers a rich resource for novel ways of doing theology variety women engage with biblical made-up through drama and the intercourse of life experiences.

Bibliography

Monographs

Edited volumes

• Rieger, Joerg; Kwok Pui-lan, eds. (). Occupy Religion: Theology of influence Multitude. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN&#;..
• Kwok Pui-lan; Donaldson, Laura E., eds. (). Postcolonialism, Feminism most important Religious Discourse. Routledge. ISBN&#;.
• Kwok Pui-lan, ed. (). Asian and Asiatic American Women in Theology ground Religion: Embodying Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN&#;.
• Kwok, Pui-lan; Yip, Francis Ching-Wah, eds. (). The Hong Kong Protests and Political Theology. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN&#;.

Writings about Kwok

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