PREFACE

CONCILIUM 2017 MANILA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Asian Christianities: (Post) Colonial Encounters an Introduction

 

Welcome Address
Marcelo V. Manimtim, CM
President- Adamson University, City of Manila

 

INTRODUCTION: Asian Christianities
Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, CM
Dean- St. Vincent School of Theology, Quezon City

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS (1): Asian Christianities: Postcolonial Encounters
Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, D.D.
Archbishop of Manila

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS (2): Asian Christianities and Theologies through the Lens of Postcolonialism
Felix Wilfred
President of Concilium

 

A. EPISTEMOLOGIES OF THE OTHER: CHALLENGES FROM ASIA

Epistemologies of the Other: Challenges from Latin America
Carlos Mendoza Alvarez
Universidad Iberoamericana - Mexico

 

Re-Claiming Christianity as Asian
Jose Mario Francisco, S.J.
Loyola School of Theology - Quezon City

 

Epistemologies of the Other: Challenges from Asia – Conversation
Open Forum

 

B. LIBERATIONS: LATIN AMERICAN, AFRICAN AND ASIAN

In South America: Liberation is Nourished by Asian Christianity
Juan Agustin Diego Irarrazaval
Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez – Chile

 

Multiple Enslavement, Multiple Liberation
Ramon Echica
Seminario Mayor de San Carlos- Cebu

 

Liberations: Latin American, African and Asian – Conversations
Open Forum

 

C. POSTCOLONIAL READINGS OF THE BIBLE

"One in Christ”: A "Third Space" for Greek Free Women, Jewish Male Slaves, and Ethiopian Eunuch? Postcolonial Readings of Gal. 3:28
Marie- Theres Wacker
University of Munster - Munster, Germany

 

A Postcolonial Reading of Gal. 3:28
Bishop Pablo David
Diocese of Kalookan, Metro Manila

 

Post-Colonial Reading of the Bible: East and West – Conversation
Open Forum

 

D. THEOLOGY, COLONIZATION AND POWER: INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS

Theology, Colonization and Power- From Germany
Michelle Becka
Julius Maximilian Universitat - Wurzburg, Germany

 

Bosnian Franciscans under the Ottoman Occupation (1463-1878)
Mile Babic
Franciscan Theological Faculty – Sarajevo

 

Linguistic Domination in Theology
Jose de Mesa
Inter-Congregational Theological Center - Quezon City

 

Theology, Colonization and Power: Intercultural Encounters – Conversations
Open Forum

 

E. FEMINIST INTERCULTURAL ETHICS: CONVERSING WITH ASIA

Gender, Femininity and Equality: A Dialogue with Asian Feminist Theology
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Boston College - Boston, USA

 

Feminist Intercultural Ethics: Conversing with Asia
Linda Hogan
Trinity College - Dublin, Ireland

 

Philippine Aborigine’s Pamilamulamu, an Encounter of the Indigenous Ethics
Carmen Scheuerman
Union Theological Seminary – Dasmariñas City

 

Overcoming Ecclesiastical Sexism by Engaging with Autochthonous Traditions
Agnes Brazal
De La Salle University – City of Manila

 

Feminist Intercultural Ethics: Conversing with Asia – Conversation
Open Forum

 

F. ASIAN RELIGIONS AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUES

The Listening Hand: Dialoging with Tibetan Traditions
Thierry-Marie Corau
Institut Catholique de Paris – France

 

Interfaith Dialogue in Asian Religious Context
Po-Ho Huang
Chang Jung Christian University - Tainan, Taiwan

 

Asian Religions and Interreligious Dialogue
Eliseo Mercado, Jr.
Notre Dame University -Cotabato City

 

G. INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS, ECOLOGY AND PEACE: DIFFERENT VOICES

Land, Spirit and Theology
Michel Andraos
Catholic Theological Union - Chicago, USA

 

Dancing and Grieving with the Sacred: Two Iconic Devotions that Critique Power and Fatalism in Filipino Popular Religiosity
Jimmy Belita
St. Vincent School of Theology - Quezon City

 

Indigenous Religions, Ecology and Peace
Jojo Fung
East Asian Pastoral Institute - Quezon City

 

Indigenous Religions, Ecology and Peace: Different Voices – Conversation
Open Forum

 

H. ASIAN CHRISTIANITIES AND THEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE

 

The Laity of the Munus of Preaching
Enrico Galavotti
Università degli Studi "Gabriele D'Annunzio"- Chieti-Pescara, Italy

 

Aesthetic Theology: Pleasure, Resistance, Empowerment
Stefanie Knauss
Villanova University - Philadelphia, USA

 

Asian Christianities and Theologies of the Future
Geraldo Luiz de Mori,
Faculdade Jesuíta de Filosofia e Teologia- Belo Horizonte, Brazil

 

Resonant Story: Theologies of Asian Christian Communities and Movements
Dennis Gonzalez
St. Vincent School of Theology- Quezon City

 

Asian Christianities and Theologies of the Future – Conversation
Open Forum

 

 

EMERGING INSIGHTS OF THE CONFERENCE

Anicia Co, RVM
Mother Ignacia Center for Spirituality - Quezon City