Encountering the Stranger at the Gate: Towards a Feminist-Postcolonial Theology of Hospitality
This paper asks: Who is the stranger? Who defines this and for whom? How do we encounter the stranger? I begin by tracing Malaysia's treatment of refugees, as paradigmatic of the marginalised, in the time of coronavirus when the Government of Malaysia had imposed a partial lockdown from March t...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SCM Press
2021
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Concilium
Year: 2021, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-29 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Refugee
/ Postcolonialism
/ Theology
/ Feminist theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society FD Contextual theology NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Malaysia B Feminists |
| Summary: | This paper asks: Who is the stranger? Who defines this and for whom? How do we encounter the stranger? I begin by tracing Malaysia's treatment of refugees, as paradigmatic of the marginalised, in the time of coronavirus when the Government of Malaysia had imposed a partial lockdown from March to September 2020. A cursory scoping of headlines during this period not only answers those questions but is also revelatory of the shifts in mind-sets and treatment of refugees in Malaysia; one from civility to hostility. I contrast that with my personal encounter with refugee female leaders. And I offer a theology of hospitality from a feminist-postcolonial lens borne from this encounter of difference, mutuality and reciprocity. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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