Wonhee Anne Joh is an author,

theologian Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of ...

, professor, and lecturer with a focus on the disciplines of religion,

women's equality Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, gender egalitarianism, or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making, an ...

, and

Asian American Studies Asian American Studies is an academic field originating in the 1960s, which critically examines the history, issues, sociology, religion, experiences, culture, and policies relevant to Asian Americans. It is closely related to other Ethnic Studies ...

Career

Joh is a Professor of Theology and Culture at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in

Evanston, Illinois Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, situated on the North Shore (Chicago), North Shore along Lake Michigan. A suburb of Chicago, Evanston is north of Chicago Loop, downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skok ...

. Joh serves as an affiliate faculty in the Department of Religious Studies and the Asian American Studies Program, and she is a faculty member in the Religion and Global Politics Group (Buffett Institute) at

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

in Evanston, Illinois. Describing her teaching philosophy, Joh stated, "As a teacher, I believe that transformative praxis begins with each of us in our everyday lives. Theological reflection is crucial because the meaning of our lives is often understood through the prism of religious experience. Therefore, theological reflection must be bold and imaginative as well as grounded in the material reality of the history of peoples' lives."

''Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology''

Joh's 2006 book, ''Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology,'' utilizes the Korean concept of '' jeong'' to construct "a theology that is feminist, political and love-centred, while acknowledging the cross as a source of pain and suffering." ''Heart of The Cross'' uses postcolonial theory as well as

post-structuralism Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism and considers them to be constituted by broader systems of Power (social and poli ...

psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...

, and liberationist

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

hermeneutics. The book investigates

Christology In Christianity, Christology is a branch of Christian theology, theology that concerns Jesus. Different denominations have different opinions on questions such as whether Jesus was human, divine, or both, and as a messiah what his role would b ...

by drawing on Joh's

Korean American Korean Americans () are Americans of full or partial Korean ethnic descent. While the broader term Overseas Korean in America () may refer to all ethnic Koreans residing in the United States, the specific designation of Korean American impli ...

experience.

Works

* ''Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006'' * ''Terror, Trauma and Mourning: A Postcolonial Theology of Hope''. Under contract and forthcoming with

Fordham University Press The Fordham University Press is a publishing house, a division of Fordham University, that publishes primarily in the humanities and the social sciences. Fordham University Press was established in 1907 and is headquartered at the university's Li ...

. * ''Engaging the United States as a Military Empire: Critical Studies of Christianity from Asian/Asian North American Perspectives''. Ed. Anne Joh and Nami Kim. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2016. * ''Korean Christian LGBT: A Critical Approach''. Ed. Anne Joh and Nami Kim. Forthcoming.

References

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