She was Coordinator of the Justice Peace and Creation Team and of the Women’s Programme of the World Council of Churches before taking up that position. Aruna GnanadasonĪruna Gnanadason was formerly the Executive Director for Planning and Integration in the General Secretariat of the World Council of Churches.
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(You can download a PDF copy of this article by clicking here, which you are free to share). Here are the 18 Asian female theologians that everyone should know about and read. Juliany González Nieves, “Caribbean Christian Theology: A Bibliography” 18 Asian (and Asian American) Female Theologians You Should Know About
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Graham Joseph Hill and Jen Barker, “160+ Australian and New Zealander Women in Theology You Should Know About” Graham Joseph Hill and Jen Barker, “20 Australian and New Zealander Female Theologians You Should Get to Know in 2020” This post is part of a series we are running profiling female theologians from all over the globe - see our other articles in this series: And at the end of this article we offer 114 more Asian female theologians whose work we are growing to admire and enjoy. We have chosen these 18 because they have been influential in our personal lives and how we think about and practice our faith and theology. These Asian female voices enrich our theology, revitalize our churches, and renew the world.įor this reason, we have decided to feature 18 Asian female theologians you should know about. The local and global church needs the voices and contributions of Asian women. Unfortunately, the ignorance about Asian female theologians and their writings is widespread and persistent. As Rita Nakashima Brock says, “We differ as much from each other in culture and language as we do from white, Eurocentric feminism,” or from white male authors. Asian cultures have “diverse eating habits, ways of life, and social and cultural realities.” Asian female theological voices are shaped by “immense cultural and religious diversity,” and are “pluralistic and multivocal, woven out of many separate strands.” 18 Asian female theologians you should know about (plus others for you to explore) Click To TweetĪs we learn from Asian female theologians, it is important to remember that their voices are diverse and many. They live on a fascinating multilingual, multireligious, and multiracial continent” and in diaspora all over the world. “Asian women comprise more than a quarter of the world’s population. Divided into at least seven linguistic zones, Asia is also the birthplace of the major historical religions of humankind.” Kwok Pui-lan goes on to say, From Japan to Indonesia, and from the Philippines to Central Asia, people live in different socio-political realities and divergent cultural worlds. “More than half of the world’s population live in Asia, a multicultural and multireligious continent that has undergone tremendous transformation during the past several decades.
Kwok Pui-lan talks about the diversity and importance of Asian female theologians, this way: And it is becoming increasingly prominent and influential. Many can’t name any (or at best they can name only a few).īut the global movement of Asian women doing theology is growing and diverse. But when you ask pastors, theological students, or even theologians to name Asian female theologians, they are often at a loss. But they are also often practitioner-theologians, pastor-theologians, or activist-theologians.Īsian females make up at least 30% of the world’s population (and even more when you include those living outside of Asia). Many of them do classic and contextual theological work. These Asian female theologians live in Asia and also among the diaspora (in North America, Europe, Australia, etc.). Some of the most creative and important theology being done today is being done by Asian female theologians. 18 Asian Female Theologians You Should Know About (Plus Others For You To Explore) By Jessie Giyou Kim and Graham Joseph Hill
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