Pui-lan Kwok

Teaching Global Theologies: Power and Praxis Pui-lan Kwok

Commendation Quotes: In a globalizing world, theology has no choice but to become global as well. The chapters of this book present helpful models for alternative ways to become truly global, addressing roadblocks, such as power differentials, and making constructive suggestions for another way forward that embraces complexity and hybridity. Commendation Quotes: As contemporary Christianity continues to move beyond its Eurocentric moorings to embrace a truly global and transnational World Christianity, "Teaching Global Theologies: Power and Praxis" is well positioned to become the definitive resource and yardstick for rethinking and re-visioning theological education that will prepare new leaders who are formed and equipped to lead their increasingly diverse and pluralistic communities in this new global and transnational reality. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: IntroductionPART I: WHAT IS GLOBAL THEOLOGY AND WHY IT MATTERS1. Teaching Theology from a Global Perspective2. Listening for Fresh Voices in the History of the Church3. Teaching Global Theology in a Comparative ModePART II: IDENTITY, POWER, AND PEDAGOGY4. The Good of Education: Accessibility, Economy, Class, and Power5. Identity Cross-Dressing While Teaching in a Global Context6. Teaching Global Theology with Local Resources: A Chinese Theologian s Strategies7. Pedagogy for Being Human in Global ComparisonPART III: PRAXIS AND RESPONSIBILITY8. Teaching to Transform: Theological Education, Global Consciousness, and the Making of Global Citizens9. Hablando Se Entiende la Gente: Tower of Babble or Gift of Tongues?10. The Geopolitical and the Glocal: Situating Global Theological Voices in Theological Education"Commendation Quotes: Now that Christianity has become truly global, the need to teach theology in a global and transnational context is more urgent than ever. Kwok Pui-Lan and her associates, all of them veteran practitioners and teachers of theology in a variety of venues and in different countries, offer here a treasure-trove of concrete suggestions distilled from their experiences. I most strongly recommend the book as required reading to all people administrators, faculty, staff, and students involved in theological teaching and learning."Biographical Note: Kwok Pui-Lan is William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School. Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu is Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Dwight N. Hopkins is Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, University of Chicago."Publisher Marketing: Theological education, like theology itself, is becoming a truly a global enterprise. As such, theological education has to form, teach, and train leaders of faith communities prepared to lead in a transnational world. The teaching of theology with a global awareness has to wrestle with the nature and scope of the theological curriculum, teaching methods, and the context of learning. "Teaching Global Theologies" directly addresses both method and content by identifying local resources, successful pedagogies of inclusion, and best practices for teaching theology in a global context. The contributors to "Teaching Global Theologies" are Catholic, mainline Protestant, and evangelical scholars from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, each with sustained connections with other parts of the world. "Teaching Global Theologies" capitalizes on this diversity to uncover neglected sources for a global theology even as it does so in constructive conversation with the long tradition of Christian thought. Bringing missing voices and neglected theological sources into conversation with the historical tradition enriches that tradition even as it uncovers questions of power, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. Teachers are offered successful pedagogies for bringing these questions into the classroom and best practices to promote students global consciousness, shape them as ecclesial leaders, and form them as global citizens."

Contributor Bio:  Kwok, Pui-Lan Kwok Pui-lan, from Hong Kong, is the William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge. She was the recipient of the "Excellence in Teaching Award" from the American Academy of Religion in 2009. Writing in both Chinese and English, she is the author of Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World (Orbis, 1995) and the forthcoming 4-volume reference work on Women and Christianity (Routledge, 2010). Contributor Bio:  Hopkins, Dwight N Dwight N. Hopkins is Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has published several books, which include Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion (2005), Heart and Head: Black Theology Past, Present, and Future (2002) and Global Voices for Gender Justice (2001, co-editor with Ramathate Dolamo and Ana Maria Tepedino).