1st Edition

Practical Theology and Majority World Epistemologies

Edited By Alfred Brunsdon, Calida Chu Copyright 2025
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers insights into the thinking of majority world practical theologians and introduces the reader to faith realities previously unknown in a quest to create a more inclusive and welcoming practical theological network. Practical theologians are situated in all corners of the globe attempting to make sense of their lived experiences and of those around them from a faith perspective.... Read more

Introduction: Practical Theology and Majority World Epistemologies
Alfred Brunsdon and Calida Chu

1. Undisciplined! A womanist ethnography for an Africana practical theology

Christina Taïna Désert

2. Fihavanana and Raiamandreny as the basis to construct a hybrid practical theology in the Malagasy context

Alfred Randriamampionona

3. Quest for African practical theology: lived religion, social transformation and public aspiration as organising centres

Vhumani Magezi

4. Don’t touch my hair: a feminist Nigerian/British reading of the woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her hair in Luke 7.36-50

Olabisi Obamakin

5. Practical theology in Arab evangelical perspective: considering a particular practice of theological reflection

Caleb Hutcherson

6. ‘More than merry-making’: Tribal-Indigenous Baptists and their lifeworlds of festivities

Rathiulung Elias KC

7. Patungo sa pagiging maka-Diyos [Towards godliness]: how Filipino men use cultural forms of epistemology in the search for truth

Michael J. Fast

8. Chaplains as hosts: balancing humility and assertiveness in spiritual care

Peter Ward Youngblood

9. Towards an Asian decolonial Christian hospitality: Shù (恕), Pachinko, and the migrant other

Eliana Ah-Rum Ku

10. Stanley Hauerwas and ‘Chan Tai-man’: an analysis of Hong Kong laypeople’s lived theology and Hong Kong theologians’ engagement with Stanley Hauerwas’s political theology from a practical theology perspective

Ann Gillian Chu

11. Taingyintha theology in the making in Myanmar: a public theological perspective.

Lahphai Awng Li

12. Theology as story: reenvisioning the task and form of theology in Asia with C.S. Song

Justin Joon Lee

Biography

Alfred Brunsdon is full professor in Practical Theology at the Faculty of Theology of the North-West University, South Africa.

Dr Calida Chu is Teaching Associate in Sociology of Religion at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham and Associate Editor of Practical Theology.