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Sharon A. Bong

Malaysia
Institution Monash University Malaysia
Position Associate Professor
Email Address sharon.bong@monash.edu
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Prior Educational Background
  • Ph.D. Religious Studies, University of Lancaster, UK, 2002
  • M.A. Women and Religion, University of Lancaster, UK, 1997
  • M.A. English Literature (Distinction), University of Malaya, Malaysia, 1996
  • B.A. (Honours II Upper) English Literature, University of Malaya, Malaysia, 1991
Research Interests
  • Asian Feminist Theology and Ethics
  • Environmental/Ecological Ethics
  • Feminist, Womanist, or Mujerista Ethics
  • Gender and Sexual Ethics
  • LGBTQ Theologies
  • Postcolonial/Decolonial Theologies
  • Queer Eco-Feminism
Past Events
  • Bangalore 2015
  • Trent 2010
Recent Publications
  • Book: Bong, Sharon A. (2020) Becoming queer and religious in Malaysia and Singapore. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Edited Book: Bong, Sharon A. (Ed.). (2014). Trauma, Memory and Transformation in Southeast Asia. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Strategic information and Research Development Centre (SIRD)
  • Journal articles: Bong, Sharon A. (2019). Ecclesiology: Becoming the queer, postcolonial, (eco)feminist body of Christ in Asia. Concilium, 5, 70–80.
  • Bong, Sharon A. (2019). Technology in the service of humanity: Perspectives on gender and inclusion. Concilium, 3, 85–94.
  • Book chapters: Bong, S. A. (2019). Doing justice to issues of gender. In Ernst M. Conradie and Hilda P. Koster (Eds.) T & T Clark handbook on Christian theology and climate change (pp. 655–658). London and New York: T & T Clark, Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Bong, S. A. (2019) Feminine genius: Revisiting gender complementarity today. In Gunter Prüller-Jagenteufel, Sharon Bong and Rita Perintfalvi (Eds.) Towards just gender relations: Rethinking the role of women in church and society (pp 137–145). Vienna: Vienna University Press.Bong, S. A. (2017). Not only for the sake of man: Asian feminist theological response to Laudato Si. In Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Hilda P. Koster (Eds.) Planetary solidarity: Global women’s voices on Christian doctrine and climate justice (pp. 81-96). Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
  • Bong, S. A. (2019) You are what you eat: The ethics of eating meat and queer ecofeminism. In Kristine C. Meneses and Christine E. Burke (Eds.). Foodscapes: Beyond the food environment – a feminist theological take on food issues in Asia (pp. 9–30). Bengaluru, India: Dharmaram Publications.
  • Bong, S. A. (2018). The feminist praxis of Talitha Kum Southeast Asia: Combatting trafficking in persons to realizing human dignity. In Virginia Saldanha and Metti Amirtham, SCC (Eds.) The 21st century woman still claiming her space: Asian feminist theological perspectives (pp. 87-107). New Delhi: Media House.
  • Bong, S. A. (2018). Transgender. In Lisa Isherwood and Dirk von der Horst (Eds.) Contemporary Theological Approaches to Sexuality (pp. 40-52). London and New York: Routledge.
  • Bong, S. A. (2017). Not only for the sake of man: Asian feminist theological response to Laudato Si. In Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Hilda P. Koster (Eds.) Planetary solidarity: Global women’s voices on Christian doctrine and climate justice (pp. 81-96). Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
  • Bong, S. A. (2017). The roots of human dignity in a Southeast Asian context. In Klaus Krämer and Klaus Vellguth (Eds.) Human dignity: Discourses on Universality and Inalienability (pp. 71-78).Quezon City: Claretian Communications Foundation, Inc.
  • Bong, S. A. (2016). A God by any other name. In Lúcás Chan Yiu Sing, James F. Keenan and Shaji George Kochuthara (Eds.), Doing Asian theological ethics in a cross-cultural and an interreligious context (181-193). Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications.
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