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Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia = A Treatise on Christian Statecraft /

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Title/Author:	Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia/ by Pak Nung Wong.
Reminder of title:	A Treatise on Christian Statecraft /
Author:	Wong, Pak Nung.
Description:	XXI, 182 p. 17 illus., 1 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Political theory. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-511-2
ISBN:	9789812875112

Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia = A Treatise on Christian Statecraft /
Wong, Pak Nung.

Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and AsiaA Treatise on Christian Statecraft /[electronic resource] :by Pak Nung Wong. - 1st ed. 2016. - XXI, 182 p. 17 illus., 1 illus. in color.online resource.

Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations of Bible Versions -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Toward a Christian Perspective of the Post-Colonial State in Africa and Asia -- Part I: Structures -- Chapter 2: Haunted Structures: Agents and Violent Conflicts in Post-Colonial African State Formation -- Chapter 3: Sovereign, Deja Vu! Unmasking the Resonating Structures in the Rwandan and Cambodian State-making Genocides -- Part II: Techniques -- Chapter 4: Techniques of Hegemony and Sovereignty: Censure, Exception and Criminal Justice in Colonial Hong Kong and Socialist China -- Chapter 5: Warlord Techniques in Post-Colonial Asia: Constitutive Agency, Patron–Client Network, and Robust Action -- Part III: Episteme and Interventions -- Chapter 6: Frontier Governmentality: The Art of Caring the Soul through the Eyes of a Christian Philippine ‘Strongman’ -- Chapter 7: Redeeming Knowledge from Power: Exploring Academic Spirituality through a Buddhist-Christian Dialogue (with Suchitra Chongstitvatana of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Two Options of Post-Colonial Christian Statecraft.

Qualifying post-Westphalian sovereign statehood as a ‘power’ as argued for in Hendrik Berkhoff’s political theology, this book addresses the decades-long theological-spiritual debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism in U.S. foreign policy and global Christian circles. It approaches the debate by delving into the pacifist Anabaptist political theology and delineates empirically how sovereign statehood in post-colonial Africa and Asia has fallen into the hands of the devil Satan, as a ‘fallen power’ in the Foucaultian terms of power structures, techniques and episteme. While the book offers intervention schemes and options, it holds that Christian statecraft remains the source of hope to effectively address a number of serious global issues. By extension, the book is thus an invitation to ignite debates on the suitability of Christian statecraft and the nexus between spirituality and world politics, making it especially interesting for scholars and students in the fields of International Politics, Politics of Asian and African States, Post-colonial Studies and Political Theology. .

ISBN: 9789812875112

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-287-511-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1253540
Political theory.

LC Class. No.: JC11-607

Dewey Class. No.: 320.01

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