The Bible and the Third World: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial encounters

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 Afric...

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Altri titoli:The Bible & the Third World
Autore principale: Sugirtharajah, R. (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Libro
Lingua:Inglese
Servizio "Subito": Ordinare ora.
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Pubblicazione: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001.
In:Anno: 2001
(sequenze di) soggetti normati:B Paesi in via di sviluppo / Ermeneutica / Bibel / Teologia contestuale
Notazioni IxTheo:HA Bibbia
Altre parole chiave:B Christianity (Developing countries)
B Bible ; Hermeneutics
B Bible Postcolonial criticism (Developing countries)
B Christianity ; Developing countries
B Bible Hermeneutics
B Bible ; Postcolonial criticism ; Developing countries
Accesso online: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Edizione parallela:Non elettronico
Print version: 9780521773355
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Riepilogo: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.
Descrizione del documento:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
ISBN:0511612613
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511612619