The Hong Kong Protests and Political Theology

This edited volume showcases theological reflections on the Hong Kong protests by scholars and activists from different national and cultural background. It discusses the meaning of crucifixion, atonement, the suffering Messiah, justice, the demonic, and the roles of the Church in a time of global unrest and social ferment and protest.

KWOK Pui-lan is Dean’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She is a past president of the American Academy of Religion. An internationally known theologian, she is author and editor of many books, including Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology and Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude (with Joerg Rieger). Her most recent edited volume is Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion. Francis Ching-wah YIP is associate professor and director of the Divinity School of Chung Chi College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his doctorate from Harvard University. His research interests include the theology and social thought of Paul Tillich, Hong Kong Christianity, and Chinese Protestant theology and practices. His publications include Capitalism as Religion? A Study of Paul Tillich’s Interpretation of Modernity and Chinese Theology in State-church Context: A Preliminary Study (in Chinese).