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Off the menu : Asian and Asian North American women's religion and theology / Rita Nakashima Brock [and others], editors.

Contributor(s): Brock, Rita Nakashima
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Edition: First editionDescription: xxi, 341 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780664231408 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0664231403 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Asian American women -- Religion | Feminist theology | Women -- Religious life -- Asia | Women | Gender identityDDC classification: 230.082/095 LOC classification: BR563 .A82 | O34 2007Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Fishing the Asia Pacific: transnationalism and feminist theology / Kwok Pui-Ian -- "Indigestible" Asian: the unifying term "Asian" in theological discourse / Nami Kim -- "She stood in tears amid the alien corn": Ruth, the perpetual foreigner and model minority / Gale A. Yee -- Spiritual buffet: the changing diet of America / Jung Ha Kim -- May you storm heaven with your prayers: devotions to Mary and Jesus in Filipino American Catholic life / Rachel A. R. Bundang -- Ancestral returns: reexamining the horizons of Asian American religious practice / Jane Naomi Iwamura -- Cooking without recipes: interstitial integrity / Rita Nakshima Brock -- Violence and Asian American experience: from abjection to Jeong / Wonhee Anne Joh -- Bitter melon, bitter delight: reading Jeremiah reading me / Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan -- No garlic, please, we are Indian: reconstructing the de-eroticized Indian woman / Anne Dondapati Allen -- Salmon and carp, bannock and rice: solidarity between Asian Canadian women and aboriginal women / Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng / When justice collapses: a religious response to sexual violence and trafficking in women in Asia / Nantawan Boonprasat Lewis --Rice, medicine, and nature: women's environmental activism and interreligous cooperation in Taiwan / Wan-Li Ho -- Has Jesus ever condemned divorce? an intercultural interpretation of Jesus' saying on divorce / Seung Ai Yang -- Story of its own name: Hong Kong's Tongzhi culture and movement / Rose Wu -- Re-creating our mothers' dishes: Asian and Asian North American women's pedagogy

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fishing the Asia Pacific: transnationalism and feminist theology / Kwok Pui-Ian -- "Indigestible" Asian: the unifying term "Asian" in theological discourse / Nami Kim -- "She stood in tears amid the alien corn": Ruth, the perpetual foreigner and model minority / Gale A. Yee -- Spiritual buffet: the changing diet of America / Jung Ha Kim -- May you storm heaven with your prayers: devotions to Mary and Jesus in Filipino American Catholic life / Rachel A. R. Bundang -- Ancestral returns: reexamining the horizons of Asian American religious practice / Jane Naomi Iwamura -- Cooking without recipes: interstitial integrity / Rita Nakshima Brock -- Violence and Asian American experience: from abjection to Jeong / Wonhee Anne Joh -- Bitter melon, bitter delight: reading Jeremiah reading me / Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan -- No garlic, please, we are Indian: reconstructing the de-eroticized Indian woman / Anne Dondapati Allen -- Salmon and carp, bannock and rice: solidarity between Asian Canadian women and aboriginal women / Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng / When justice collapses: a religious response to sexual violence and trafficking in women in Asia / Nantawan Boonprasat Lewis --Rice, medicine, and nature: women's environmental activism and interreligous cooperation in Taiwan / Wan-Li Ho -- Has Jesus ever condemned divorce? an intercultural interpretation of Jesus' saying on divorce / Seung Ai Yang -- Story of its own name: Hong Kong's Tongzhi culture and movement / Rose Wu -- Re-creating our mothers' dishes: Asian and Asian North American women's pedagogy

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