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moreteamorecats's review
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I wanted very much to like this book, but every page was a disappointment. As comparative theology, it's painfully thin and naive, even totalizing. (The Holy Spirit is similar to chi! They must be different names for the same reality! So are prana and ha, while we're at it!) As postcolonial/hybridity theology, it's derivative, repeating the theses of Bhabha et al. with very little addition. Worse, I don't see how the author's reifications of "East" or "West" or "Asian" (e.g. "the Asian concept of chi"-- which one?!) can survive the sort of critical analysis her theoretical basis requires.
There is absolutely material here for a terrific book. I want to read a postcolonial pneumatology, or an ethnography of chi practices among North American Christians, and preferably something that combines them. This ain't it.
There is absolutely material here for a terrific book. I want to read a postcolonial pneumatology, or an ethnography of chi practices among North American Christians, and preferably something that combines them. This ain't it.
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