The Jesus of Asian Women

Contents: Acknowledgements. Prologue: "And there was no room in the Inn" (Luke 2:7b). 1. Looking at Jesus through Asian eyes. 2. Do Indian women find Jesus in the Ganges? 3. Korean women : Meeting Jesus at the foot of the Salt Mountain. 4. Walking with Jesus in the Philippines: Singing and dancing amid struggle. 5. Gazing at the postcolonial Jesus: The multitude identity of Christ in Hong Kong. 6. Epilogue: Who is this Jesus who comes to my house? Notes. Bibliography. Index.

"This book presents a rich texture of Asian women\'s Christological understanding. It focuses on the need to recognize and end the oppressed condition of Asian women who suffer from poverty, cultural strictures, gender discrimination, and lack of access to basic human rights.

Also, it shows how the Christologies brought to Asia by Western Missionaries often failed to take into account the realities of Asia--its great diversity of cultures as well as its varieties of religious expression. Finally, it describes the Christologies developed by Asian theologians, both men and women, in India, Korea, Philippines and Hong Kong." (jacket)