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
Church history
1 online resource (x, 306 pages)
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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
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