Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism

Wonhee Anne Joh is professor of theology and culture at Garrett Theological Seminary, faculty director of the Asian American Ministry Center, faculty affiliate in the Departments of Religious Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University, and author of, Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology and co-editor of Critical Theology Against US Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization. Nami Kim is associate professor of religious studies and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Spelman College and author of The Gendered Politics of the Korean Protestant Right: Hegemonic Masculinity and co-editor of Critical Theology against U.S. Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization.

• INTRODUCTIONNami Kim and Wonhee Anne JohCHAPTER ONE“The Militarism of Racialization, Colonization, and Heteropatriarchy” by Andrea SmithCHAPTER TWO“Manifesting Evil: The Doctrine of Discovery as Christianized Genocide in the Lives of Indigenous Women and Their Communities” by Lisa Dellinger CHAPTER THREE“From My Lai to Ferguson: Collaterality, Grievous Deaths, Militarized Orientalism, Benevolence, and Racism” by Mai-Anh TranCHAPTER FOUR“The Shame Culture of Empire: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword as Handbook for Cold War Imperialism” by B. Yuki Schwartz CHAPTER FIVE“The Remains of the War Ruins: U.S. Military Prostitution in South Korea” by K. Christine PaeCHAPTER SIX“Blinking Red: The Escalation of a Militarized Police Force and Its Challenges to Black Communities” by Pamela Lightsey CHAPTER SEVEN“The Muslim Ban and (Un)Safe America” by Nami KimCHAPTER EIGHT“Feminist Strategies for Outsider-Insiders: Our Year Teaching Navy Chaplains” by Kate Ott and Kristen J. LeslieABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

This book provides much for reflection on the complexification of notions of violence. It makes cogent points about the role of growing militarization and how narratives of safety, security, and violence against women are used to support the proliferation of the military industrial complex into many realms of religion and society.