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Faith and freedom in Galatia and Senegal : the Apostle Paul, colonists and sending gods / by Aliou Cisse Niang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Niang, Aliou Cissé.
- Series:
- Biblical interpretation series ; v. 97.
- Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; v. 97
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Galatians--Social scientific criticism.
- Bible.
- Bible. Galatians--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Senegal.
- Theology--Senegal.
- Theology.
- Diola (African people)--Senegal--Religion.
- Diola (African people).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal reads Galatians 2:11-15 and 3:26-29 through the lens of the 19th-20th century experiences of French colonialism by the Diola people in Senegal, West Africa, and portrays the Apostle Paul as a \''sociopostcolonial hermeneut who acted on his self-understanding as God’s messenger to create, through faith in the cross of Christ, free communities' -- a self-definition that is critical of ancient Graeco-Roman and modern colonial lore that justify colonization as a divine mandate.\' Aliou C. Niang ingeniously compares the colonial objectification of his own people by French colonists to the Graeco-Roman colonial objectifications of the ancient Celts/Gauls/Galatians, and Paul's role in bringing about a different portrayal.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A sociopostcolonial hermeneutics
- Identity and the socioreligious context of pre-Christian and Christian Galatians
- Senegalese Diola in context
- Modes of community and identity formation : an exegesis of Galatians 2:11-14 and 3:26-29
- A postcolonial reading of Paul's Epistle to the churches of Galatia : a conclusion.
- Notes:
- Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Brite Divinity School, 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-164) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-60196-2
- 9786612601965
- 90-474-2867-6
- OCLC:
- 593346203
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004175228.i-184 DOI
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