Dr. Christine J. Hong's Books
Published books and forthcoming publications
A book on teaching and learning in theological education, Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education, is guided by the question, "What makes education intercultural and interreligious?" "How might we rethink and redesign learning spaces to be hospitable to cultural and religious differences and dismantle the coloniality of theological education?" "How might we subvert traditionally colonial spaces to model the engaged intercultural and interreligious world we seek?" The book helps educators and practitioners of intercultural and interreligious learning to deconstruct and reconstruct spaces of learning by centering interreligious and intercultural intelligence through the voices, experiences, and narratives of minoritized people.
This book studies Korean American girls between thirteen and nineteen and their formation with regard to self, gender, and God in the context of Korean American protestant congregational life. It develops a hybrid methodology of de-colonial aims and indigenous research methods, aiming to facilitate transformative life in faith communities.
Candidly Speaking: Refusing a White Supremacist World Through Dialogue and Story - Co-written with Dr. Anne Walker.
Forthcoming by Cascade Press
Listen in on an intimate conversation between two women of color, Cherokee and Korean American--both anti-racist scholars and theological educators—about navigating our hybrid identities amid the national conversation on anti-racism. This book is a vulnerable conversation between two people often invisibilized within the U.S. racialized binary. The book captures how culturally and racially hybrid people like us navigate visibility in the anti-racist community. The book seeks to identify ways that hybrid people can live into wholeness and flourishing by refusing white supremacy. This book is invested in decolonial futures. In a complicated world, the two authors want to understand their roles in realizing that future.