Prophetic Imagination and Empire in Asia

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" Prophetic Imagination and Empire in Asia "
Jude Lal Fernando

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1068978
Doc. No	:	LA112607
Call No	:	‭10.1163/25424246-00101006‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jude Lal Fernando
Title & Author	:	Prophetic Imagination and Empire in Asia [Article]\ Jude Lal Fernando
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Asian Christianity
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	1/1
Page No	:	91–116
Abstract	:	The aim of this article is to identify the glimpses of prophetic imagination amongst the Christian communities in Asia, particularly in Korea and Japan, who are engaged in resisting the new round of militarization in the twenty-first century. This resistance denounces the globalist security complex in the region and announces a nonmilitaristic alternative forming a praxis that is necessary for a new theology of peace in East Asia and in Asia broadly. The political reality of the new round of military empire-building will be discussed with a personal narrative and a political analysis after which the theological meaning of prophetic imagination as opposed to imperial consciousness will be analyzed, correlating the personal and political with the theological. The ways in which the resistance to militarization resonates with the prophetic imagination of an alternative consciousness and community will be examined through an analysis of memories and renunciation of war by the churches. Broad implications of these resonances for a peace theology in Asia will be identified. The aim of this article is to identify the glimpses of prophetic imagination amongst the Christian communities in Asia, particularly in Korea and Japan, who are engaged in resisting the new round of militarization in the twenty-first century. This resistance denounces the globalist security complex in the region and announces a nonmilitaristic alternative forming a praxis that is necessary for a new theology of peace in East Asia and in Asia broadly. The political reality of the new round of military empire-building will be discussed with a personal narrative and a political analysis after which the theological meaning of prophetic imagination as opposed to imperial consciousness will be analyzed, correlating the personal and political with the theological. The ways in which the resistance to militarization resonates with the prophetic imagination of an alternative consciousness and community will be examined through an analysis of memories and renunciation of war by the churches. Broad implications of these resonances for a peace theology in Asia will be identified.
Descriptor	:	Asian Studies
Descriptor	:	collective memory
Descriptor	:	conversion
Descriptor	:	East Asia
Descriptor	:	protest and hope
Descriptor	:	Religion in Asia
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	theologizing
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Descriptor	:	World Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/25424246-00101006‬