Decolonizing "Protestant" Death Rituals for the Chinese Bereaved: Negotiating a Resistance that is Contextually Relevant
This paper is a postcolonial reading of the Protestant practice of continuing bonds between the living and the dead in Hong Kong. It sees the practice as an imperfect indigenization that, in the post-colonial Hong Kong context, can be interpreted as an everyday resistance, a notion advanced by James...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2021
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International journal of practical theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 243-262 |
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postcolonial resistance in Hong Kong
B continuing bonds B everyday resistance B Asian Practical Theology B imperfect indigenization and death rituals |
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| Summary: | This paper is a postcolonial reading of the Protestant practice of continuing bonds between the living and the dead in Hong Kong. It sees the practice as an imperfect indigenization that, in the post-colonial Hong Kong context, can be interpreted as an everyday resistance, a notion advanced by James Scott. The postcolonial relevance of an everyday resistance is explained. The findings of a qualitative study are reported to substantiate the claims. It concludes that a practical theology of imperfect indigenization understood as resistance on everyday level is a public theology recommendable to the post-colonial Hong Kong and Asia. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9768 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/ijpt-2019-0017 |