Description This book calls attention to an urgent need for postcolonial feminist approaches to practical theology.
It not only advocates for the inclusion of colonialism as a critical optic for practical theology but also demands a close look at how colonialism is entangled with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, disability, and sexual orientation.
Seeking to highlight the importance of the interdependence of life, the author challenges and contests the notion of independence as the desirable goal of the human being.
Lifting up the experiences of overlooked groups--including children at adult-centered worship, queer and interracial youth in heterosexual and white normative family discourse, and non-human species in human-centered academic and theological realms--the book contributes to expanding the concerns of practical theology in ways that create healthy community for all human beings and non-human fellow creatures.
It also takes up issues of multiple religious belonging and migration that practical theology has not sufficiently explored.
These illuminating new possibilities promise to renew and even transform church communities through the inclusion of often-neglected groups with whom God is already present.
This invaluable book brings postcolonial theory to bear on key issues of practical theology, such as the self, family, borders, migration, and ecology.
Using 'interdependence of life' as a framework, it offers astute theological analyses and keen pastoral insights, challenging the false binary of practical and 'impractical' theology.
This is a gift to students of theology, ministers, and pastoral workers.
--Kwok Pui-lan, author of Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology In this wonderfully disruptive and transformative book, Hye Ran Kim-Cragg breaks new ground, employing interdependence as a plumb line for Christian realignment.
Pushing aside the veil of North American colonialism, she deftly reminds readers that all of us depend on the me.
