Asian feminist theology

Inspired by both liberation theology and Christian feminism, it aims to contextualize them to the conditions and experiences of women and religion in Asia.

Emphasis was placed on the shared and lived experiences of oppression, colonialism, and neo-colonialism, and the theology of this stage was more reflective and descriptive than analytical.

Asian feminist theologians began to call to attention the diversity and wide range of lives and situations experienced by women across Asia.

Christology was from the beginning a key issue of interest for Asian feminist theologians and this has remained so, however there are now works being done on subjects such as Mariology, sophia, soteriology, and ecclesiology.

"[7] An example of this is detailed by Korean theologian Chung Hyun Kyung who talks about han-pu-ri as a way for Asian women to find healing.

Chung describes han as coming from "the sinful interconnections of classism, racism, sexism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, and cultural imperialism which Korean people experience everyday".

The ritual of han-pu-ri, overseen mostly by female shamans, is a method of liberation that is especially helpful as it is "one of the few spaces where poor Korean women played their spiritual role without being dominated by male-centred religious authorities".

Padma Gallup of India claims that Western Christianity has lost this inclusive understanding as it is too "wrapped in layers of ponderous patriarchy, Dualistic cosmology of Zoroastrianism, Greek philosophy, and the ethics of the marketplace and morality of the dominant male of the Puritan tradition.

Virginia Fabella writes, "Asian women have been 'lorded over' for centuries and all the major religions including Christianity have contributed to this sinful situation.

[19] For many Asian feminist theologians such as Chung Hyun Kyung, Rita Nakashima Brock, and Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, spirituality involves both body and soul in harmony and focuses on the joyful celebration of life.

Reacting against traditional church teachings that inhibit the eroticism of women, for Asian feminist theologians, a woman's sensuality is something that is liberating and freeing, allowing them to feel deeply towards God and others.