R. S. Sugirtharajah

The Bible and the Third World

Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive history of the Bible in the Third World.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780521005241
• ISBN-10: 0521005248
• Artikelnr.: 21045502

Autorenporträt

R. S. Sugirtharajah is Professor of Biblical Hermeneutics, University of Birmingham. Recent publications include: The Bible and Empire: Postcolonial Explorations (Cambridge, 2005), Postcolonial Criticism and Bibical Interpretation(Oxford, 2002), Postcolonial Reconfigurations: An alternative way of reading the Bible and doing Theology, SCM Press, London, 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Precolonial Reception: 1. Before the empire
Part II. Colonial Embrace: 2. White men bearing gifts: diffusion of the Bible and scriptural imperialism
3. Reading back: resistance as a discursive practice
4. The colonialist as a contentious reader: Colenso and his hermeneutics
5. Textual pedlars: distributing salvation - colporteurs and their portable Bibles
Part III. Postcolonial Reclamations: 6. Desperately looking for the indigene: nativism and vernacular hermeneutics
7. Engaging liberation: texts as a vehicle of emancipation
8. Postcolonialising biblical interpretation
Afterword
Bibliography
Index of biblical references
Index of names and subjects.