Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations
Title | Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Higuera Smith |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2014-06-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830896317 |
This groundbreaking volume arose out of the Postcolonial Roundtable in 2010, with contributors addressing the intersection of postcolonialism and evangelicalism. Looking at themes like nationalism, mission, Christology, catholicity and shalom, this volume explores new possibilities for evangelical thought, identity and practice.
Decolonizing Evangelicalism
Title | Decolonizing Evangelicalism PDF eBook |
Author | Randy S. Woodley |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2020-03-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1498292038 |
The increasing interest in postcolonial theologies has initiated a vital conversation within and outside the academy in recent decades, turning many “standard theologies” on their head. This book introduces seminary students, ministry leaders, and others to key aspects, prevailing mentalities, and some major figures to consider when coming to understand postcolonial theologies. Woodley and Sanders provide a unique combination of indigenous theology and other academic theory to point readers toward the way of Jesus. Decolonizing Evangelicalism is a starting point for those who hope to change the conversation and see that the world could be lived in a different way.
Christian Worship
Title | Christian Worship PDF eBook |
Author | Michael N. Jagessar |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2014-09-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1317545400 |
Postcolonialism has greatly influenced biblical and theological criticism but has not yet entered the realm of church worship and practice. 'Christian Worship' brings the insights of postcolonial thinking to the rituals of religious life. The book critically analyses liturgical theology through the lens of postcolonialism and explores the challenges of appropriating postcolonial perspectives in Christian worship. Ranging from liturgical texts and song to Scripture, lectionaries, festivals and sacraments, this volume offers a fresh approach to liturgy that will be of interest to students of theology, seminarians and church practitioners.
Islam and the Bible
Title | Islam and the Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Ayman S. Ibrahim |
Publisher | B&H Publishing Group |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2023-12-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1087770238 |
As early as the seventh century, Christians living and ministering in Muslim contexts adapted their language and public witness to Islamic cultural and religious sensitivities. In Islam and the Bible, editors Ayman S. Ibrahim and Ant B. Greenham invite leading voices, representing a spectrum of approaches, to explore the issues surrounding “Muslim Idiom Translations” of the Bible. This work will be insightful for students, theologians, missiologists, missionaries, and Bible translators seeking wisdom and clarity on gospel contextualization.
The Bible, Centres and Margins
Title | The Bible, Centres and Margins PDF eBook |
Author | Johanna Stiebert |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2018-08-23 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567667251 |
There has rarely been an effort to address the missing dialogue between British and African scholars, including in regard to the role of British missionaries during the introduction ofthe Bible and Christianity to many parts of Africa. To break this silence, Musa W. Dube and Johanna Stiebert collect expressions from both emerging and established biblical scholars in the United Kingdom and (predominantly) southern African states. Divided into three sets of papers, these contributions range from the injustices of colonialism to postcolonial critical readings of texts, suppression and appropriation; each section complete with a responding essay. Questioning how well UK students understand Africancentred and generated approaches of biblical criticism, whether African scholars consider UK-centric criticism valid, and how accurately the western canon represents current UK based scholarship, these essays illustrate the trends and challenges faced in biblical studies in the two centres of study, and discusses how these questions are better answered with dialogue, rather than in isolation.
Postcolonial Voices from Downunder
Title | Postcolonial Voices from Downunder PDF eBook |
Author | Jione Havea |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2017-06-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1532605870 |
How do indigenous matters inform, irritate and advance postcolonial theologies and postcolonial biblical criticisms? What options emerge from confronting readings of religious, customary, scriptural, political and cultural texts, traditions, leanings, bodies and anxieties? These two questions epitomize the concerns that the contributors address in this collection. The postcolonial voices that come together between the covers of this book show that indigenous subjects and heritages do matter in the theological and hermeneutical business, for we all have something to learn from First Peoples, and that theologians and biblical critics have much to gain from (and offer to) confronting and troubling traditional views and fears. Together in this book, the postcolonial voices from Downunder (geographically: Oceania, Pasifika; ideologically: marginalized, minoritized) confront political and religious bodies, including Christian churches, on account of their participation in and justification of the occupation and poaching of native lands, wisdom, wealth, and titles. This book is for First Peoples and Second Peoples, whether they are down under or up yonder, who are curious about possible advents of postcolonial theologies and postcolonial biblical criticisms in the future.
Vietnamese Evangelicals and Pentecostalism
Title | Vietnamese Evangelicals and Pentecostalism PDF eBook |
Author | Vince Le |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2018-11-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004383832 |
In Vietnamese Evangelicals and Pentecostalism, Vince Le offers an analysis of the historical, theological, and social conditions that shape the Vietnamese evangelical tradition and give rise to the growth of pentecostalism among evangelicals in contemporary Vietnam.