Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theologies Storyweaving in the Asia-Pacific [Paperback]

Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theology focuses on what postcolonial theologies look like in colonial contexts, particularly in dialogue with the First Nations Peoples in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. The contributors have roots in the Asia-Pacific, but the struggles, theologies and concerns they address are shared across the seas.PART I: LOCATING THEOLOGY 1. Threshold Theology; Bill Ashcroft 2. Weaving Oppression and Liberation: Postcolonial Theology as Theology of Struggle; Gemma Talud Cruz 3. Vaa-tapa-lagi: De-heavening Trinitarian Theology in the Islands; Upolu Lum? Vaai 4. Let the River Flow: A Postcolonial Ecotheology and The Grand Canal Project in Korea; Jea Sophia Oh PART II: RELOCATING THE BIBLE 5. The Hebrew Bible and Postcolonial Samoan Hermeneutics; Makesi Neemia 6. The Empire of God, the Postcolonial Jesus and Postapocalyptic Mark; Keith Dyer 7. Encountering State Ideology: Reading the Bible from an Indonesian Postcolonial Perspective; Yusak B. Setyawan 8. Natives, reading, scriptures: In transit, in Pasifika; Jione Havea PART III: WEAVING COLONIAL HISTORIES 9. John Green  Manager of Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, but also a Ngamadjidj?: New Insights into his Work with Victorian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century; Ian D. Clark and Fred Cahir 10. Men, Masculinity and Missionaries: Exploring the Cultural, Health and Spiritual Impact of the Australian Missionary Enterprise on Aboriginal Men; Brian McCoy 11. Law and Sovereignty in Australian National Narratives; Mark G. Brett PART IV: POSTCOLONIAL PRACTICES 12. 'Terra ius Amnesiacs': A Theological Analysis of the Persistence of Colonisation in the Australian Context and the Blocks to real Reconciliation; Peter Lewis 13. 'This is my body?' A Post-colonial Investigation of Indigenous Australian Communion Practices; Steve Taylor and Tim Matton-Johnson 14. Homemaking: Reclaiming the Ideal of Home as a Framework for Hosting Cultural and Religious Diversity; Seferosa Carroll 15. Acknowledging TradlC]