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title: "39 Cosmopolitan Quotes By Namsoon Kang"
description: "39 Cosmopolitan quotes by Namsoon Kang. Plus more from Namsoon Kang and more Cosmopolitan sayings from other authors."
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> [“\_For what ends\_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? \_Whose interest\_ does it serve?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/for-what-ends-does-one-claim-cosmopolitanism-whose-interest-does-it/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/religion-is-about-hospitality-solidarity-and-responsibility-or-it-is/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/the-overall-theme-of-theology-can-be-twofold-the-search-for-meaning/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/theological-discourse-can-be-in-and-of-itself-a-form-of-identity-and/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality \_is\_ what constitutes being \_religious\_.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/the-cosmopolitan-gaze-of-planetary-love-and-hospitality-is-what/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a \_singular relationality between and among people”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-emphasizes-and-is-grounded-in-a-singular/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for \_the impossible\_.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitan-theology-is-a-theology-for-the-impossible/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism starts from the \_singular\_ individual rather than the \_faceless\_ collective”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-starts-from-the-singular-individual-rather-than-the/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“The question is not, therefore, \_whether\_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but \_what function\_…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/the-question-is-not-therefore-whether-a-theory-is-grand-or-small-or/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“I believe that dreaming an \_impossible\_ world, is itself the task of theologies and that the disparity between \_the world-as-it-is\_ (reality) and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/i-believe-that-dreaming-an-impossible-world-is-itself-the-task-of/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitan discourse is in a way a response to the issue of solidarity. Although the precondition for solidarity can be a \_community\_,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitan-discourse-is-in-a-way-a-response-to-the-issue-of/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/theology-should-be-a-discourse-that-helps-the-sociopolitical-approach/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/i-believe-theology-should-be-about-one-s-way-of-life-a-kind-of-gaze/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-is-a-radical-affirmation-of-the-idea-of-neighbor/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitan theology affirms and radicalizes the belief that the Divine creates each and every human being as equal to every one else…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitan-theology-affirms-and-radicalizes-the-belief-that-the/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a \_public gaze\_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitan-discourse-provides-one-with-a-public-gaze-with-which-one/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitan-theology-that-longs-for-the-kindom-of-god-seeks-to/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitan discourse emphasizes the \_cosmic belonging\_ of all individual human beings as the ground of our hospitality, solidarity, justice and neighbor-love. Cosmopolitan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitan-discourse-emphasizes-the-cosmic-belonging-of-all/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Theologians are to look to the \_beyond\_-community–– \_beyond\_ nationality; skin-color, gender; sexual orientation, citizenship, religious affiliation––because God, the Divine, who is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/theologians-are-to-look-to-the-beyond-community-beyond-nationality/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“I fully recognize there is an urgent need for constructing the \_strategic we-nes-in-sameness\_ and promoting the \_solidarity of sameness\_. The sheer realization…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/i-fully-recognize-there-is-an-urgent-need-for-constructing-the/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism,..., \_speaks\_ about the urgent need for and the significance of relocating our discourse on,..., the scope and application of rights and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-speaks-about-the-urgent-need-for-and-the-significance/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [ “now the question we must ask is...what kind of \_practices\_ \[theology\] motivates, what kind of \_gaze\_ onto others, the guest, the new… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/now-the-question-we-must-ask-is-what-kind-of-practices-theology/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism seeks a \_we\_ that does not rely on the exclusion of \_others\_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-seeks-a-we-that-does-not-rely-on-the-exclusion-of/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Theological discourses function in various ways as sites of contestation and resistance, of forming new religious and personal identities, and of building…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/theological-discourses-function-in-various-ways-as-sites-of/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/who-are-theologians-what-kind-of-self-identity-could-or-should-a/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/although-i-believe-identity-politics-produces-limited-but-real/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that the disparity between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/the-time-and-space-in-which-i-have-been-working-on-this-cosmopolitan/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“One should regard one's religious or denominational affiliation as a point of departure, a point of entry, not the point of arrival…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/one-should-regard-one-s-religious-or-denominational-affiliation-as-a/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Teaching and learning \_religious plurality often ends up privileging religious \_texts\_ over \_practice\_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/teaching-and-learning-religious-plurality-often-ends-up-privileging/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism promotes a sense of new \_we-ness as regarding every individual human being as a citizen of the cosmos. However, the \_we-cosmic-citizens\_…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-promotes-a-sense-of-new-we-ness-as-regarding-every/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“What does it mean to be human, to continue to live as human, to remain \_faithful\_ to the Divine while living in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/what-does-it-mean-to-be-human-to-continue-to-live-as-human-to-remain/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Walter Mignolo terms and articulates \_critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of "the homogeneity of the planet from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/walter-mignolo-terms-and-articulates-critical-cosmopolitanism/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an \_ecumenical taboo\_ that one has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/whenever-one-comes-to-the-the-table-for-interreligous-dialogue-there/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/i-want-to-affirm-that-thinking-and-living-knowing-and-doing-theory/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/religion-is-about-hospitality-and-responsibility-and-about-neighbor/)

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> [“How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be \_true\_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/how-can-one-maintain-a-theological-confidence-in-what-one-claims-to/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the \_signs of our times\_ as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-has-offered-me-an-ethical-perspective-and-a/)

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> [“The politics of trans-identity seeks to move from the \_politics of singular identity\_ to the \_politics of multiple solidarities\_ across various identities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/the-politics-of-trans-identity-seeks-to-move-from-the-politics-of/)

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> [“I believe \_cosmopolitanism\_ can be an effective discourse with which to advocate a politics of \_transidentity\_ of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/i-believe-cosmopolitanism-can-be-an-effective-discourse-with-which-to/)

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> [“I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/i-want-to-affirm-that-thinking-and-living-knowing-and-doing-theory/)

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> [“Cosmopolitan theology affirms and radicalizes the belief that the Divine creates each and every human being as equal to every one else as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitan-theology-affirms-and-radicalizes-the-belief-that-the/)

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> [“I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/i-believe-theology-should-be-about-one-s-way-of-life-a-kind-of-gaze/)

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> [“the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/the-overall-theme-of-theology-can-be-twofold-the-search-for-meaning/)

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> [“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of Christian \_tradition\_?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/who-are-theologians-what-kind-of-self-identity-could-or-should-a/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a \_singular relationality between and among people”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-emphasizes-and-is-grounded-in-a-singular/)

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> [“What does it mean to be human, to continue to live as human, to remain \_faithful\_ to the Divine while living in a cultural,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/what-does-it-mean-to-be-human-to-continue-to-live-as-human-to-remain/)

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> [“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an \_ecumenical taboo\_ that one has to comply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/whenever-one-comes-to-the-the-table-for-interreligous-dialogue-there/)

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> [“Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/religion-is-about-hospitality-solidarity-and-responsibility-or-it-is/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/one-should-regard-one-s-religious-or-denominational-affiliation-as-a/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the \_signs of our times\_ as a theologian and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-has-offered-me-an-ethical-perspective-and-a/)

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> [“Teaching and learning \_religious plurality often ends up privileging religious \_texts\_ over \_practice\_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and the lived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/teaching-and-learning-religious-plurality-often-ends-up-privileging/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism starts from the \_singular\_ individual rather than the \_faceless\_ collective”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-starts-from-the-singular-individual-rather-than-the/)

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> [“Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for \_the impossible\_.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitan-theology-is-a-theology-for-the-impossible/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

> [“Theologians are to look to the \_beyond\_-community–– \_beyond\_ nationality; skin-color, gender; sexual orientation, citizenship, religious affiliation––because God, the Divine, who is the primary frame…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/theologians-are-to-look-to-the-beyond-community-beyond-nationality/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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                        "text": "“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of Christian _tradition_? What if the _tradition_ itself carries a dark side, implicitly or explicitly, bounded by religious or cultural superiorism, ethnocentrism, homophobism, exclusive nationalism, sexism, racism, and so forth? What kind of _identity_ would then justify my rule as theologian? This question has been lingering in my mind throughout the time I have been working on cosmopolitan theology. it may sound simple, but for me the identity issue has been fundamental.”",
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                        "text": "“The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that the disparity between the ideal of cosmopolitan theology and the current sociopolitical configuration of hospitality, welcoming others, unconditional forgiveness, is itself a _prophetic call_ to which we all have to respond––as humans, as person of faith. The _real_ is always about calculation and conditionality, whereas the _ideal_ of cosmopolitan theology is about incalculability, unconditionality, and planetarity of the _world-as-it-ought-to-be_. Therefore, the disparity between the reality and the ideality is not a space for despair but a space where one's sense of prophetic call_ and passion for _the impossible_ must come in.”",
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                        "text": "“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply with. The ecumenical taboo_ does not exist in a written document, but people tend to practice it around the dialogue table. One should not raise, for instance, such questions as gender justice, sexual orientation issues, religious constructions of the other, multiple forms of violence in a religious community, or religious cooperation with neo/imperialism. each religion has its own _history of sin_ that has justified and perpetuated oppression and exclusion of certain groups of people through its own religious teaching, doctrine, and practice. In order to be _nice_ and _tolerant_ to one another, interreligious dialogue has not challenged the fundamental issues of injustice that a particular religion has practiced, justified, and perpetuated in various ways. I do not disregard that most ecumenists have based interreligious dialogue on a politics of tolerance, and this has played a significant role in easing the antagonism between religions, at least among the leaders of established religions. However, we should ground an authentic ecumenism and theology of religion in a _politics of affirmation and transformation, rather than a politics of tolerance_.”",
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