Making Paper Cranes: Toward an Asian American Feminist Theology

by Mihee Kim-Kort

Overview

This is not your typical Asian instructional book on Asian crafting or origami. Making Paper Cranes is an attempt to describe an ever emerging life, in an emerging community within Christianity in North America, that is intentionally taking flight and impacting the world.

This theological book engages the social histories, literary texts, and narratives of Asian American women, as well as the theological projects of prominent Asian American feminist theologians. It seeks to offer another liberative theological voice. Inherent in its construction is the interconnectedness of all stories that articulate struggle, resistance, and the artistic flourishing of oppressed peoples.

Simply put, Making Paper Cranes is about Asian American mothers, daughters, sisters, and women who are imaginatively and courageously crafting their journeys together in and through their Christian faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780827223769
Publisher:	Chalice Press
Publication date:	12/15/2012
Series:	Young Clergy Women Project
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	465 KB

About the Author

Mihee Kim-Kort is an ordained Presbyterian minister. She and her family live in Indiana where her husband is the pastor of a church. Her children occupy most of her day when she is not writing or reading about parenting, feminist theology, and social justice.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v

Foreword vii

Prologue: Making Paper Cranes: Memories, Stories, Legends xi

1 Flight and Migration: The Asian American Journey 1

2 Fidelity, Prosperity, Longevity: The Asian American Woman 17

3 Fight, Struggle, and Survive: The Asian American Woman's Resistance 31

4 A New Flock: Currents from Asian and Asian American Feminist Theology 49

5 Freedom Songs of Long Life 79

6 Food for the Journey: A Third Space and Threshold Theology 95

Epilogue: A Thousand Cranes: Everlasting Wishes 109

Notes 111

Bibliography 118