Karen Bray PhD Student in Theological and Philosophical Studies  In introducing the term mujerista into the field of Latina theology, Ada María Isasi-Díaz writes, “A name is not just a word by which one is identified.  A name also provides the conceptual framework, the point of reference, the mental constructs that are used in thinking, [...]

Hyun Hui Kim PhD Student in Theological and Philosophical Studies  In the field of theological studies, feminist theologies emerging from Asia—the so-called Asian Feminist Theologies—seem to be controversial even in name, because the term, “feminist,” connotes their as having been promoted by middle-class European and American women (Kwok Pui-lan, 2005:7).  Unlike female theologians from other [...]

We have created this page in hope that you will find resources here that help to deepen and complicate your own understanding of Christianities in their varied contexts. “What’s in a Name? Tracing the Development of Latina Theologies of Their Own,” by Karen Bray This paper explores the development of Latina theologies over the last 25 [...]

Daniel Flores, Co-pastor of La Trinidad UMC-Fort Worth (Ph.D. 2004) In 1999, I received the MPhil in Theological and Religious Studies from Drew’s Graduate School. Since I was writing my dissertation on early American Methodism, I needed to travel to repositories in distant places. The Edwards-Mercer Prize enabled me to visit the John Rylands Library [...]

Dear GDR Graduates, Students, Faculty, and Friends, It is a pleasure indeed to address you from the page of our first e-Newsletter!  We hope that this publication will provide a vehicle for sharing news several times a year about the exciting things that are happening in the diasporic community of Drew’s Graduate Division of Religion–not [...]

An Overview of the Early History of International Students at Drew (Jung Doo Kim) Li Jung-Fang, an Early Graduate from China (Jung Doo Kim) The History of Korean Students at Drew (Jung Doo Kim) Peter Deunov: An Early Graduate from Bulgaria (Nick Petrov) Alex Boraine: A South African Graduate (Nick Petrov and Theresa Ellis) An Overview of the [...]

On November 9, 2011, the Center for Christianities in Global Contexts organized and sponsored a noontime panel discussion entitled “Global Christianities: Complicating the Concept.”   CCGC Co-Directors Virginia Burrus and Jeffrey Kuan respectively presided and responded to presentations given by faculty members Chris Boesel and Kenneth Ngwa and Luce Graduate Fellows Adelaide Boadi and Jung-Doo Kim.   [...]