Colonialism and the Bible : contemporary reflections from the global south / edited by Tat-siong Benny Liew and Fernando F. Segovia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Liew, Tat-siong Benny, editor.

Series:

Postcolonial and decolonial studies in religion and theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Postcolonial criticism.

Bible.

Postcolonial criticism of sacred works.

Physical Description:

lxi, 336 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]

Summary:

This volume addresses the problematic relationship between colonialism and the Bible. It does so from the perspective of the Global South, calling upon voices from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors address the present state of the problematic relationship in their respective geopolitical and geographical contexts. In so doing, they provide sharp analyses of the past, the present, and the future: historical contexts and trajectories, contemporary legacies and junctures, and future projects and strategies. Taken together, the essays provide a rich and expansive comparative framework across the globe. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Colonialism and the Bible : a critical stock-taking from the global south / Fernando F. Segovia

Bible and colonialism : what does the New Testament really say? / Tat-siong Benny Liew

Interrogating identity : a Christian Egyptian reading of the Hagar-Ishmael traditions / Safwat Marzouk

The Bible as tool of colonization : the Zimbabwean context / Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango

Postwar hermeneutics : Bible and colony-related necropolitics / Kenneth Ngwa

The Bible as a de-colonial tool for Palestinian Christians today / Michel Elias Andraos

Israeli cinema's interpretations of the biblical imperative of colonization / Yael Munk

Towards a postcolonial hermeneutics for the Palestinian context / Mitri Raheb

Colonial storms and postcolonial moves : exploring alternative Filipino biblical hermeneutics / Eleazar S. Fernandez

Carrying out "the great commission" until the "second coming of Christ"? : overseas mission currents in the context of US military imperialism / Nami Kim

The Jesuit missionary enterprise : Christianity, slave trade, and gun powder enter Japan / Hisako Kinukawa

Evoking the Bible at a funeral in an Indian-Christian Community / J. Jayakiran Sebastian

Bible and colonization : Aotearoa New Zealand / Jenny Te Paa Daniel

The most burning of lavas : the Bible in Latin America / Nancy Elizabeth Bedford

La biblia, la mary el Caribe/the Bible, the sea, and the Caribbean : late 19th to early 21st century / Carlos F. Cardoza Orlandi

Without the Bible : a new liberation theology / Ivan Petrella

Transfiguration : the figural approach to reading the Bible in Latin America / Vï¿1/2itor Westhelle

Colonialism and the Bible : trajectories, evaluations, proposals / Fernando F. Segovia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9781498572750

1498572758

OCLC:

1020300545