Antonio D. Sison, CPPS, is committed to contextual, intercultural, and aesthetic approaches to
doing systematic theology. 
 
His latest book is The Art of Indigenous Inculturation: Grace on the Edge of Genius (Orbis
Books, 2021), a cutting-edge exploration of the phenomenon of religious inculturation through
the “aesthetics of liberation,” with case studies from Asian, African, and Latin American
postcolonial contexts. He is also the author of the books The Sacred Foodways of
Film (Pickwick, 2016), World Cinema, Theology and the Human (Routledge, 2012), Screening
Schillebeeckx: Theology and Third Cinema in Dialogue (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); and a
contributing author to a number of books and journals.
 
He has given lectures and presentations in Mexico, Kenya, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam,
Singapore, the Philippines, Austria, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and a number of
venues across the United States. From April to June 2022, he was a visiting scholar at Nanzan
University’s Institute of Religion and Culture in Nagoya, Japan; his on-site research focused on
inculturation in the context of Nagasaki’s “Hidden Christians” who survived the great
persecution of the Tokugawa period (1630-1867). He was the featured keynote lecturer for the
2018 Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas (ASEAC) international conference in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and for Paradojas de lo liminal: Cine y teología, 2018 Film and
Theology Colloquium of Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. 
 
Antonio or “Br. Ton” is a religious Brother of the Society of the Precious Blood (CPPS).

Contact
asison@ctu.edu