Asian Theological Summer Institute: Faculty
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Asian heritage supported by the Henry Luce Foundation
- Faculty for ATSI 2012 -
| Dr. Jung Ha Kim | Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock | Dr. Peter Cho Phan |
| Dr. Tat-siong Benny Liew | Dr. W. Anne Joh | Dr. J. Jayakiran Sebastian |
| Dr. J. Paul Rajashekar |
Dr. Jung Ha Kim
Senior Lecturer Sociologist, Director of the Asian American Community Research Institute, Georgia State university, Atlanta, GA
Research Interests: Sociology of religion, Asian American experience, cognitive sociology (sociology of knowledge and culture), social theories, and life narrative studies (of women). Increasingly, her research interests include public health and policies.
Education: BA, University of California; Davis, MA, Princeton Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Georgia State University
Publications Include: Bridge-makers and Cross-bearers: Korean American Women and the Church, Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities (co-edited with Min), Singing the Lord’s Song in a New Land: Korean American Practices of Faith (co-authored with Park, Lee, and Choi), Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women’s Religion and Theology (co-edited with Brock, Kwok, and Yang), “The Restoried Lives: the Everyday Theology of Korean American Never-married Women” in Religion and Spirituality in Korean America, and numerous journal articles in Amerasia, Journal of Religion & Abuse, Journal of Asian and Asian American Theology, Voices From The Third World, American Journal of Public Health, and The Journal of Religion.
Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock
Director, Faith Voices for the Common Good, Visiting Scholar, Starr King School for the Ministry of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA.
Research Interests: Moral injury; public role of progressive religion; restorative justice; creation-based soteriology; feminist/womanist/mujerista, transgressive theologies; hybrid identities and theological anthropology; early Christian art as primary texts
Education: B.A. Chapman University; Rel. M. Claremont School of Theology; additional graduate study: University of Basel and Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Publications Include: Author of Journeys By Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power; "Cooking without Recipes: Interstitial Integrity," in Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women's Religion and Theology (also co-editor). Co-author of Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States; Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us; Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire, and Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury in the Aftermath of War, forthcoming. Co-editor and contributor to Setting the Table: Women in Theological Conversation and Guide to the Perplexing: A Survival Manual for Women in Religious Studies.
Dr. Peter Cho Phan
Igancio Ellacuría Professor of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Research Interests: History of missions in Asia, theology of mission, religious pluralism and interreligious dialogue
Education: B.Phil, Don Bosco College; BA, University of London; STB, STL and STD, Salesian Pontifical University; Ph.D and DD, University of London
Publications Include: In Our Own Tongues: Perspectives from Asia on Mission and Inculturation, Christianity with an Asian Face: Asian American Theology in the Making, Being Religious Interreligiously: Asian Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue in Postmodernity, and the Handbook to Roman Catholic Theology among many others. He is also the editor of such works as Many Faces, One Church: Cultural Diversity and the American Catholic Experience, The Cambridge Companion to the Trinity, and Christianities in Asia
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean; Professor of New Testament
Research Interests: Literary theory, postcolonial studies, gender/sexuality studies and ethic studies (particularly Asian American history and literature), and transdisciplinary study of the New Testament
Education: BA and MA, Olivet Nazarene University; MA and PhD, Vanderbilt University
Publications Include: Politics of Parousia: Reading Mark Inter(con)textually; and What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Reading the New Testament. He has also jointly edited They Were All Together in One Place?Toward minority Biblical Criticism with Randall C. Bailey and Fernando F. Segovia. Dr. Liew is also the editor of Postcolonial Interventions: Essays in Honor of R.S. Sugirtharajah, and Reading Ideologies: Essays in Honor of Mary Ann Tolbert, as well as the guest editor of the SEMEIA double-volume on “The Bible in Asian America."
Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL
Research Interests: Intersections of feminist/womanist theology, postcolonial and poststructural theory, critical race theory and cultural studies. Her latest research areas include race and sexuality, postcoloniality and bio-politics of empire, issues of citizenship, human rights, immigration, and psycho-social-religio analysis of subjectivity.
Education: BA, North Central College; MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary; MPhil and PhD, Drew University; Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theology from Fordham University
Publications Include: Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology; “Violence and Asian American Experience: From Abjection to Jeong” in Asian and Asian North American Women’s Theology and Religion; “The Transgressive Power of Jeong: A Postcolonial Hybridization of Christology” in Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empires; “Loves’ Multiplicity: Jeong and Spivak’s Notes Towards Planetary Love” in Planetary Loves: Gayatri Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology; and an upcoming book In Proximity to the Other: A Postcolonial Theological Anthropology (forthcoming from Westminster John Knox Press)
Dr. J. Jayakiran Sebastian
H. George Anderson Professor of Mission and Cultures, and Director, Multicultural Mission Resource Center, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Research Interests: Contribution and relevance of the early teachers of faith; Baptism and conversion, especially in Asia; Contemporary missiology from a postcolonial perspective
Education: BSc, Bangalore University; BD, United Theological College, Bangalore (Senate of Serampore College); MTh, FFRRC, Kerala (Senate of Serampore College); DrTheol, University of Hamburg, Germany
Recent Publications Include: Enlivening the Past: An Asian Theologian’s Engagement with the Early Teachers of Faith; “On Walking Through the Cemetery: Continuity and Transformation in Reading Death in an Indian Christian Community,” in Postcolonial Interventions: Essays in Honor of R.S. Sugirtharajah, ed. Tat-siong Benny Liew; and “Intertwined Interaction: Reading Gregory of Nazianzus Amidst Inter-religious Realities in India,” in William F. Storrar, Peter J. Casarella, and Paul Louis Metzger, eds., A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology.
Academic Dean and Luther D. Reed Professor of Systematic Theology, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Research Interests: Christian ecumenism, cross-cultural dialogue, social and political ethics, congregational ministry and religious pluralism
Education: BA, University of Mysore; BD, United Theological College; STM, Concordia Seminary-Seminex; PhD, University of Iowa
Publications Include: New Religious Movements and the Church (co-edited with Allen Brockway); Asian Lutheranism: Which Way?; Religious Pluralism and Lutheran Theology; Bridging Gospel and Asian Culture
ATSI 2011 Attendees
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