The Bible and the Third World : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial encounters / R.S. Sugirtharajah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Hermeneutics.

Bible.

Bible--Postcolonial criticism--Developing countries.

Christianity--Developing countries.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

The Bible & the Third World

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This innovative study moves briskly but comprehensively through three phases of the Third World's encounter with the Bible - precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. It recounts the remarkable story of how an inaccessible and marginal book in the ancient churches of India, China and North Africa became an important tool in the hands of both coloniser and colonised; how it has been reclaimed in the postcolonial world; and how it is now being reread by various indigenes, Native Americans, dalits and women. Drawing on substantial exegetical examples, Sugirtharajah examines reading practices ranging from the vernacular to liberation and the newly-emerging postcolonial criticism. His study emphasises the often overlooked biblical reflections of people such as Equiano and Ramabai as well as better-known contemporaries like Gutiérrez and Tamez. Partly historical and partly hermeneutical, the volume will serve as an invaluable introduction to the Bible in the Third World for students and interested general readers.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; OVERVIEW AND ARGUMENTS; CHAPTER 1 Before the empire: the Bible as a marginal and a minority text; CHAPTER 2 White men bearing gifts: diffusion of the Bible and scriptural imperialism; CHAPTER 3 Reading back: resistance as a discursive practice; CHAPTER 4 The colonialist as a contentious reader: Colenso and his hermeneutics; CHAPTER 5 Textual pedlars: distributing salvation ... colporteurs and their portable Bibles; CHAPTER 6 Desperately seeking the indigene: nativism and vernacular hermeneutics

CHAPTER 7 Engaging liberation: texts as a vehicle of emancipationCHAPTER 8 Postcolonializing biblical interpretation; Afterword; Select bibliography; BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS; THEOLOGY; HISTORY: COLONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL; CRITICAL THEORIES; THE BIBLE SOCIETY REPORTS; Index of biblical references; Index of names and subjects

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-297) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-11985-5

1-280-42956-9

0-511-17359-8

0-511-15272-8

0-511-32766-8

0-511-61261-3

0-511-04990-0

OCLC:

475915697