Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity

Introduction: What does Hybridity have to do with Religious Language? How Asian North American Hybridity Could Converse with Religion TodayPart I: Foundations1. Our Building Blocks: Hybridity, Diaspora, Hermeneutics and the Identity of the Interpreter2. The What and What-Not of Asian North American Hermeneutics: What Mark 2:23-28 and l'affaire Peter Phan Illustrate3. A Thick Description of Hybrid Theological Interpreters4. Should There Really Be an "End of Faith"? Hybridity and Sam Harris' Proposal for an "End" to Religion5. Talking Back to Our Parents: What Asian North American Hybridity Can Suggest to AsiaPart II: Hybridity Converses with Particular Themes6.The New Testament Canon as Hybrid7. The Changes in Jesus' Plans: How Hybridity Reveals and Revels in a Developmental View of Jesus8. John's Claims of Superiority as Seen through Hybrid Eyes9. Revelation's Telos (Goal of History) as Seen through Hybrid Eyes10. The Dark Side of Realized Hope: Hybridity Traces the Roots of Christian Intolerance11. What is "Conversion" in a Hybridized Postmodern World? From Monoreligiosity to InterreligiosityConclusion: Assessing Hybridity's Role in Religious Language: Toward an Interreligious/Interspiritual Future

 Julius-Kei Kato, a proud Filipino-Japanese-Canadian hybrid, is Associate Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at King's University College, London, Canada. He has previously served as Assistant Professor at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, and Visiting Associate Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan. He is the author of How Immigrant Christians Living in Mixed Cultures Interpret Their Religion (2012). He has lived and studied in Manila, Tokyo, Rome, Jerusalem, and Berkeley-California, among other places.