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The Bible and the Third World : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial encounters /
This is a comprehensive history of the Bible in the Third World from precolonial days to the postcolonial period. It examines the work of theologians from the non-Western world. The volume is an invaluable guide to anyone interested in learning about the impact of the Bible on Third World cultures.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Precolonial Reception :
- 1. Before the empire : the Bible as a marginal and a minority text :
- India : liturgical and iconic usage
- China : the surrogate Bible : monuments and manuscripts
- Africa : Latin Bible and local controversies
- Part II. Colonial Embrace :
- 2. White men bearing gifts : diffusion of the Bible and scriptural imperialism :
- Venerable versions and paucity of Bibles
- Cheap Bibles and scriptural imperialism
- Marks of colonial hermeneutics
- 3. Reading back : resistance as a discursive practice :
- An emancipator as emancipator of texts: Olaudah Equiano and his textual allusions
- Confluence of histories : William Apess and textual reclamations
- Textual conversations : K.N. Banerjea and his Vedas
- Textual management : Pandita Ramabai and her Bible
- African emancipatory movements and their Bibles
- 4. The colonialist as a contentious reader : Colenso and his hermeneutics :
- Out of the mouths of the heathen
- Cleansing the contradictions
- Exegetical contestation
- The sacred text improved and restored
- Situating Colenso in the colonial discourse
- 5. Textual pedlars : distributing salvation : colporteurs and their portable Bibles :
- Bartering the word of God
- Errant readers and indecent cultures : effects of the Society's Bible
- The colporteur's book
- Changed by the text
- Omens out of the Book : non-readerly use and non-textual attitudes
- Construction of racial images
- Part III. Postcolonial Reclamations :
- 6. Desperately seeking the indigene : nativism and vernacular hermeneutics
- Vernacularization and biblical interpretation
- The vernacular in metropolitan context
- Some affirming and constructive thoughts
- 7. Engaging liberation : texts as a vehicle of emancipation :
- Classical liberation hermeneutics
- Radical reading within the margins : peoples' appropriation of the Bible
- Identity-specific readings
- 8. Postcolonializing biblical interpretation :
- Streams of postcoloniality
- Postcolonial criticism and biblical studies
- Liberation hermeneutics and postcolonial criticism : shall the twain meet?
- Some deck-clearing exercises
- Consequences, concerns and cautions.