The stolen Bible : from tool of imperialism to African icon / by Gerald O. West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Gerald O., auihor.

Series:

Biblical interpretation series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--History.

Bible.

History.

Christianity and culture.

Africa--Church history.

Africa.

Church history.

Christianity and culture--Africa--History.

Bible--Versions, African.

Physical Description:

x, 626 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Contents:

Introduction: the distinct Bible

Prologue: the African Bible

The African Bible: Mediterranean North Africa

The African Bible: Coptic, Nubian, and Ethiopian North Africa

The Imperial Bible: sub-Saharan or tropical Africa

The Imperial Bible

The empires' Bibles: Portuguese East africa and Dutch South Africa

The folk Bible: religion at sea

The constrained Bible: bartering cattle

The prescribed Bible: the role of the sick-comforter

The retributive Bible: towards seizing African cattle

The mundane Bible: company rhythms at the Cape

The indigenous Bible: land and cattle as religion

The local Bible: religions of extraction and subsistence

The irrupting Bible: religion in an African context

The revealed Bible

The bartered Bible: trader-missionary travellers

The covered Bible: Burchell's visit

The uncovered Bible: Campbell's visit

The probed Bible: conversations with Mothibi

The dislocated Bible

The unsettled Bible: negotiating place

The relocated Bible: Hamilton's mundane mission

The embroiled Bible: Hamilton manages the mission

The eternal Bible: Hamilton's message

The disruptive Bible: an unstable interior

The observed Bible: the African gaze

The translated Bible

The theological Bible: Moffat's message

The vernacular Bible: Moffat's language labours

The military Bible: Moffat's mixed message

The short and simple Bible: Moffat's ABC

The (m)aligned Bible: Moffat's temporal and eternal message

The instructive Bible: Moffat's mode of translation

The appropriated Bible

The cultural Bible: African culture as Africa's old testament

The liberating Bible: Isaiah Shembe's Bible

The oral/aural Bible: Shembe's law

The re-written Bible: Shembe's teaching

The liturgical Bible: maidens performing the Bible

The communal Bible: corporate interpretation

The contested Bible

The trustworthy Bible: the book of hope

The ideological Bible: the oppressive voices of the Bible

The black Bible: what it means 'to have' the Bible

The Africans' Bible: other African theologies

The embodied Bible

The Marabi Bible: corporate preachings of the Bible

The sung Bible: the cadences of death

Mbuli's Bible: re-citing the Bible

The HIV Bible: the wages of sin and a word of hope

The AIDS Bible: the beast in the Bible

The narrative Bible: African commentary in art

The apocalyptic Bible: the 'son of man' in South Africa

The public Bible

The RDP Bible: the Bible re-enters the public realm

Mbeki's Bible: separating the moral and economic spheres

The church theology Bible: after prophetic theology

Mandela's Bible: Mandela's Methodism

The ANC Bible: the RDP of the soul

Zuma's Bible: a more popular religion

Ramaphosa's Bible: the re-redeployed Bible

Epilogue: the iconic Bible

The football fans' Bible: conjuring the Bible

Abahlali's Bible: the Bible among the social movements

The people's Bible: getting the cattle back.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-594) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: West, Gerald O., auihor. Stolen Bible

ISBN:

9789004322752

9004322752

OCLC:

945029760