Theological Reflections on the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement

Justin K. H. Tse is Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington, USA.Jonathan Y. Tan is The Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor of Catholic Studies at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

• Foreword; Kwok Puilan.- Introduction. The Umbrella Movement and Liberation Theology; Justin K.H. Tse.- PART I: A Primer on Occupying Hong Kong.- 1. The Umbrella Movement and the Political Apparatus: Understanding “One Country, Two Systems”; Justin K.H. Tse.- PART II: Theological Reflections on the Umbrella Movement.- 2. Solidarity and Division among Hong Kong People in the Occupy Movement: Reflection from a Hong Kong Catholic Perspective; Mary Yuen.- 3. Radical Inclusion in the Umbrella Movement: Interstitial Integrity and the New Pentecostal Rebirth of Hong Kong; Rose Wu.- 4. The Umbrella Movement and Kairos: The Church’s Theological Encounter with a Political Movement; Lap Yan Kung.- 5. Exegeting the Occupation of Hong Kong: The Umbrella Movement as a Battleground for Liberation Hermeneutics; Sam Tsang.- Epilogue. Conscientization in the Aftermath of Occupying Hong Kong; Justin K.H. Tse.

“The book is an important contribution to our understanding of the Umbrella Movement, and our understanding of the relations between religion and politics in this specific Asian context. … I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of theological insights I gathered from the book.” (Mariske Westendorp, readingreligion.org, February,2018)​