"I believe _cosmopolitanism_ can be an effective discourse with which to advocate a politics of _transidentity_ of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or hybrid subjects in order to challenge conve..."
- Namsoon Kang
"Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_."
"The politics of trans-identity seeks to move from the _politics of singular identity_ to the _politics of multiple solidarities_ across various identities without abandoning one's personal attachments..."
"_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?"
"Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all."
"the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others."
"Cosmopolitan discourse emphasizes the _cosmic belonging_ of all individual human beings as the ground of our hospitality, solidarity, justice and neighbor-love. Cosmopolitan discourse is about turning..."
"the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_."
"One should regard one's religious or denominational affiliation as a point of departure, a point of entry, not the point of arrival because on cannot confine God to a particular religion or faith trad..."
"Theological discourses function in various ways as sites of contestation and resistance, of forming new religious and personal identities, and of building solidarities. Theological discourses that the..."