Kwok Pui Lan

Kwok Pui Lan adalah seorang perempuan Cina yang dibesarkan di Hongkong. Ia adalah seorang teolog feminis dan teolog agama-agama di Asia. Ia juga merupakan anggota Gereja Anglikan dan memperoleh pendidikan teologinya di Hongkong dan Amerika Serikat. Sekarang ia mengajar di Cambridge, Amerika Serikat. Ia aktif dalam dunia feminis dan menjadi teolog feminis di negaranya. Pemikiran-pemikiran teologisnya ia gunakan dalam pendekatan post-kolonial. Kwok Pui Lan memulai teologi feminis post-kolonialnya dengan melukis ulang identitasnya sebagai perempuan Kristen Tionghoa. Ia bersama perempuan Cina lainnya hidup di dalam tepian sejara dan gereja. Meskipun demikian, Pui Lan melihat tepian sebagai titik berangkat ideal dalam berteologi feminis post-kolonial. Ia melihat tepian secara positif sebagai tempat mengawali perlawanan. Tepian menjahukannya dari pengaruh negatif teologi yang dikerjakan kelas menengah Barat yang erosentrik.

Kwok Pui Lan

Sedangkan pemikirannya mengenai teologi agama-agama disebut olehnya sebagai teologi post-kolonial tentang perbedaan agama. Sesuai dengan nama post-kolonial yang dipakainya, Pui-lan memulai teologinya dengan menganalisis secara post-kolonial terhadap cara pandang kekristenan terhadap tradisi-tradisi religius yang lain selama ini, khususnya pada periode menguatnya kolonialisme politik Barat yang membawa pengaruh dan perubahan besar pada dunia, baik dunia Barat sendiri maupun dunia Timur yang dikuasai. Pengaruh dan perubahan besar tersebut meliputi semua aspek kehidupan, termasuk aspek religius.

Buku

• Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology. Westminster/John Knox Press, forthcoming in the fall of 2004.
• Introducing Asian Feminist Theology. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
• Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1995
• German translation: Interpretation als Dialog: Eine Biblische Hermeneutik aus Asien. Luzern: Genossenschaft Edition Exodus, 1996.
• Chinese Women and Christianity: 1860-1927. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992.
• Edited Books and Journals
• Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Religious Discourse, with Laura E. Donaldson. New York, Routledge, 2002.
• Beyond Colonial Anglicanism: The Anglican Communion in the Twenty-First Century, with Ian T. Douglas. New York: Church Publishing, 2001.
• Inheriting Our Mothers’ Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective, with Letty M. Russell, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, and Katie Geneva Cannon. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1988.
• Dutch translation: Erfenis Uit de Tuinen van Onze Moeders. Kampen: Uitgeversmaatschappij J. H. Kok, 1992.
• Women’s Sacred Scriptures, with Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Concilium, 1998:3.
• Asian and Asian American Women’s Voices, Special issue of Journal of Asian and Asian American Theology 2:1 (1997).
• Xingbiexue yu funü yanjiu (Gender and women studies in Chinese societies), with Fanny M. Cheung and Hon-ming Yip. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 1995.
• Shangdi zai yazhou renmin zhi zhong (God in the midst of the people in Asia: an anthology on Asian theology). Hong Kong: Chinese Christian Literature Council, 1993.
• Fengsheng de fuyin (The fullness of the gospel), with Joseph Tai-wai Kaung. Hong Kong: Chung Chi Theology Division, 1984.
• Yijiu jiuqi yu xianggang shenxue (1997 and Hong Kong theology). Hong Kong: Chung Chi Theology Division, 1983.

Artikel

• “Interfaith Encounter,” in The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality, ed. Arthur G. Holder, forthcoming from Blackwell.
• “Finding Ruth a Home: Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Otherness,” in Futuring the Scriptures, ed. Robert M. Fowler, Fernando F. Segovia, and Edith Blumhofer, forthcoming from Trinity Press International.
• “Untouchable Taboo: On the Sexuality of Jesus,“ in Feminist Companion on Jesus Movement, ed. Amy-Jill Levine, forthcoming from Sheffield Academic Press.
• “Gay Activism in Asian and Asian American Churches,” The Witness 87:28 (May 21, 2004), http://www.thewitness.org/agw/kwok051904.html Diarsipkan 2010-12-21 di Wayback Machine.
• “Mercy Amba Oduyoye and African Women’s Theology,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 20:1 (2004): 7-22.
• “Feminist Theology, Southern,” in The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, ed. Peter Scott and William T. Cavanaugh (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 194-209.
• “Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Biblical Interpretation,” in Scripture, Community and Mission: A Festschrift in Honor of D. Preman Niles (Hong Kong: Christian Conference of Asia, 2003), 269-84.
• “Liberation Theology in the Twenty-First Century,” in Opting for the Margins: Postmodernity and Liberation in Christian Theology, ed. Joerg Rieger (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 71-88.
• “Engendering Christ,” in Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, ed. Fernando F. Segovia, (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2003), 300-13.
• “Theology as a Sexual Act?” Feminist Theology 11:2 (2003): 149-56.
• “Unbinding Our Feet: Saving Brown Women and Feminist Religious Discourse,” in Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Religious Discourse, ed. Laura E. Donaldson and Kwok Pui-lan (New York: Routledge, 2002), 62-81.
• “Historical, Dialogical, and Diasporic Imagination in Feminist Studies of Religion,” in The End of Liberation? Liberation in the End! ed. Charlotte Methuen and Angela Berlis (Leuven: Peeters, 2002), 57-80.
• “Feminist Theology as Intercultural Discourse,” in The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology, ed. Susan Frank Parsons (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 23-39.
• “Feminist Theology at the Dawn of the Millennium: Remembering the Past, Dreaming the Future,” Feminist Theology 27 (2001): 6-20.
• “The Legacy of Cultural Hegemony in the Anglican Church,” in Beyond Colonial Anglicanism, ed. Ian T. Douglas and Kwok Pui-lan (New York: Church Publishing, 2001), 47-70.
• “Mending of Creation: Women, Nature, and Eschatological Hope,” in Liberating Eschatology: Essays in Honor of Letty M. Russell, ed. Margaret A. Farley and Serene Jones (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999), 145-55.
• “Images of God in the Chinese Context,” Voices from the Third World 21:2 (1998): 102-18.
• “The Sources and Resources of Feminist Theologies: A Post-Colonial Perspective,” in Sources and Resources of Feminist Theology, ed. Elisabeth Hartlieb and Charlotte Methuen (Kampen, The Netherlands: Kok Pharos, 1997), 5-23.
• “Inclusivity, Language, and Worship,” in Anglicanism: A Global Communion, ed. Andrew Wingate et al. (London: Mowbray, 1998), 63-68.
• “Jesus/the Native: Biblical Studies from a Postcolonial Perspective,” in Teaching the Bible: The Discourses and Politics of Biblical Pedagogy, ed. Fernando F. Segovia and Mary Ann Tolbert (Maryknoll, N. Y: Orbis Books, 1998), 69-85.
• “On Color-coding Jesus: An Interview with Kwok Pui-lan,” in The Postcolonial Bible, ed. R. S. Sugirtharajah (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), 176-88.
• “Ecology and Christology,” Feminist Theology 15 (1997): 113-25.
• “Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World: The Journey Continues,” Journal of Asian and Asian American Theology 2:1 (1997): 64-77.
• ”Overlapping Communities and Multicultural Hermeneutics,” in A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), 203-15.
• “Chinese Women and Protestant Christianity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” in Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, ed. Daniel H. Bays (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), 194-208.
• “Emerging Feminist Theology from Asia,” in Women and Theology, ed. Mary Ann Hinsdale and Phyllis H. Kaminski (Maryknoll, N. Y.: Orbis Books, 1995), 93-98.
• “Business Ethics in the Economic Development of Asia: A Feminist Analysis,” Asia Journal of Theology 9:1(1995): 133-45.
• “Competing Paradigms for Theological Education: The Global Challenge,” in Christianity and Civil Society (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1995), 137-49.
• “Racism and Ethnocentrism in Feminist Biblical Interpretation,” in Searching the Scriptures: A Feminist Introduction, ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, vol. 1 (New York: Crossroad, 1993), 101-15.
• “Chinese Non-Christian Perceptions of Christ,” Concilium 1993:2, 24-32.
• “Appropriation and Reciprocity in Womanist/Mujerista Feminist Work,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 8:2 (1992): 102-5.
• “Claiming Our Heritage: Chinese Women and Christianity,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 16:4 (October 1992): 150-54.
• “The Future of Feminist Theology: An Asian Perspective,” Voices from the Third World 15:1 (June 1992): 141-61.
• “Ecology and the Recycling of Christianity,” Ecumenical Review 44:3 (July 1992): 304-7.
• “The Image of the ‘White Lady’: Gender and Race in Christian Mission,” Concilium 1991:6, 19-27.
• “Women and the Ministry of Jesus,” in Peoples of Asia, People of God (Osaka, Japan: Christian Conference of Asia, 1990), 109-18.
• “The Emergence of Asian Feminist Consciousness of Culture and Theology,” in We Dare to Dream: Doing Theology as Asian Women, ed. Virginia Fabella and Sun Ai Lee Park (Maryknoll, N. Y.: Orbis Books, 1990), 92-100.
• “Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World,” Semeia 47 (1989): 25-42.
• “Mothers and Daughters, Writers and Fighters,” in Inheriting Our Mothers’ Gardens, ed. Letty M. Russell et al. (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1988), 21-34.
• “Feminist Theology from a Chinese Perspective,” in Towards a Chinese Feminist Theology, ed. Winnie Ho (Hong Kong: Lutheran Theological Seminary, 1988), 175-86.
• “Biblical Hermeneutics from a Feminist Perspective,” in Towards a Chinese Feminist Theology, ed. Winnie Ho (Hong Kong: Lutheran Theological Seminary, 1988), 187-98.
• “Roundtable Discussion: A Vision of Feminist Religious Scholarship,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 3:1 (1987): 98-103.
• “A Chinese Perspective,” in Theology by the People: Reflection on Doing Theology in Community, ed. Samuel Amirtham and John S. Phobe (Geneva: WCC, 1986), 78-83.
• “The Feminist Hermeneutics of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza: An Asian Feminist Response,” East Asia Journal of Theology 3:2 (1985): 147-53.
• “God Weeps with Our Pain,” East Asia Journal of Theology 2:2 (1984): 228-32.
• The Poor Woman: A Critical Analysis of Asian Theology and Contemporary Chinese Fiction, by Wai-Ching Angela Wong, Quest 1:1 (2002): 94-104.
• Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Ecology, Feminism, and Religion, ed. Rosemary Radford Ruether, Anglican Theological Review 79 (1997): 296-97.
• “Xingbiexue yu Zhongguo zongjiao chuanton” (Gender studies and Chinese religious traditions), in Xingbiexue yu funü yanjiu (Gender and women studies in Chinese societies), (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 1995), 151-69.
• “Funü shenxue” (Feminist theology), Nanjing shenxue zhi (Nanjing theological review), 16 (June 1992): 50-55.
• “Funü, quanli, gongyi” (Women, power, justice), Si (Reflections) 5 (1990): 4-8.
• “Daimu yingfou hefa hua?” (Should surrogate motherhood be legalized), Mingbao yuehan (Ming Pao monthly) (October 1989): 102-5.
• “Zhenfen funü di fuyin” (A gospel that encourages women), in Fengsheng de fuyin (The fullness of the gospel), (Hong Kong: Chung Chi Theology Division, 1984), 92-108.