Kwok pui lan pluralism project

This essay in honor of Kwok Pui-lan examines her theology of religious pluralism in the context of Asian, and more narrowly, Asian-American theology....

Professor Kwok Pui Lan joins us to share wisdom from her recent book The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective.

In this study, highly respected feminist theologian Kwok Pui-lan offers the first full-length theological treatment of what it means to do postcolonial.

This essay in honor of Kwok Pui-lan examines her theology of religious pluralism in the context of Asian, and more narrowly, Asian-American theology.

She argues that a postcolonial feminist pluralism, which extrapolates the which can make sense of difference is a key project for contemporary theology if it is.

Within this typology, Kwok's sympathies lie clearly with the pluralist camp.

Kwok Pui-lan

Hong Kong feminist theologian specializing in Asian feminism and postcolonial theology

In this Chinese name, the family name is Kwok.

Kwok Pui-lan (Chinese: 郭佩蘭, born ) is a Hong Kong-born feminist theologian known for her work on Asian feminist theology and postcolonial theology.

Academic life and career

Kwok was born in Hong Kong to Chinese parents who practiced Chinese folk religion at home. She converted to Anglican Christianity when she was a teenager.

Kwok started her B.A.

at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, before moving on to do her BD and MTh at Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology.

Kwok demonstrates in her 'Introduction' and her first chapter on 'Globalization, Religious Pluralism and Dialogue' that religion is back in the public arena.

She gained her Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School,^[2] finishing her doctoral dissertation on "Chinese Women and Christianity" in , later published through Scholars Press.^[3] She is the author of twenty books, including Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology ().

She has published in the disciplines of feminist theology, po