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ISBN-13: | 9781608990498 |
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Publisher: | Wipf & Stock Publishers |
Publication date: | 12/01/2009 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 208 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction 1
Part I Problems in the Korean-American Community
1 Han-Talk 9
The Portrait of Han 9
The Han of War and the Divided Korea 12
"Comfort Women" 14
Vincent Chin 16
The Abandoned Woman 18
Biased Writer for Film Production 19
White Christianity 20
Police Discrimination 21
Victims of Media Racism 22
2 The Han of the Korean-American Community 26
Racial Conflict 26
Structural Problems 29
Results of Structural Problems 40
3 The Sin of Korean-American Communities 41
Racism 41
Sexism 43
Labor Exploitation 45
Part II Toward Solutions
4 A Vision for Society 51
A Common Vision 52
An Indispensable Vision 52
An Inmost Vision 56
A Vision of Eco-social Justice 59
Mass Media 62
5 A Vision for the Church: Parousia 67
The First Coming 68
The Second Coming 69
6 A Vision for the Self 72
The Western Concept of the Self 73
The Eastern Notion of the Self 75
Part III Methodology
7 Sociological Theories 85
The Assimilation Model 85
The Amalgamation Model 87
The Cultural Pluralism Model 88
The Triple Melting Pot Theory 90
A New Ethnic Identity: A Synthesis 91
8 Current Korean-American Models: Church and Culture 93
The Withdrawal Model 94
The Assimilation Model 95
The Paradoxical Model 96
9 Embodying the Community of God: A Transcendent, Transmutational Model 99
Transmutation 99
Inward and Outward Aspects of Transmutation 100
The Fourfold Task of Korean-American Christians 101
Transcendence 102
Theological Cross-culturalism 103
The Cross: Symbol of Transmutation 103
Radical Openness 105
Authentic Visions 105
10 Koreanness: Toward a Christic Community 107
Hahn (Paradoxical Inclusiveness) 107
Jung (Affectionate Attachment) 110
Mut (Graceful Gusto) 112
Koreanness and Christianity 114
Contributions of Hahn, Jung, and Mut to Society 115
11 The Extended Family 118
The Korean-American Family 119
The Modified Extended Family and the Extended Conjugal Family 120
Family Decline 122
Two Views 124
The Extended Family and Christian Faith 125
Part IV An Emerging Theology
12 Theology of Seeing Biblical Insights for Racial Healing 129
Pentecost 130
The Road to Emmaus 132
The Lawyer's Question 135
13 Seeing Others Well: Dissolving the Han of Group Conflict 138
The Story of the King and the Monk 138
Seeing Others 139
A Culture of Seeing 139
Seeing in Eastern Religious Traditions 141
Seeing and Transmuting 142
Seeing and Understanding 144
14 Balm for Healing 145
Visual Seeing: A Hermeneutics of Questioning 146
Intellectual Seeing: A Hermeneutics of Construction 148
Spiritual Seeing: A Hermeneutics of Affection 151
Soul-Seeing: A Hermeneutics of Celebration 154
Notes 161
Bibliography 183
Index 195