Postcolonial Perspectives in African Biblical Interpretations
Title | Postcolonial Perspectives in African Biblical Interpretations PDF eBook |
Author | Musa W. Dube |
Publisher | SBL Press |
Pages | 538 |
Release | 2024-01-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1589836375 |
This volume foregrounds biblical interpretation within the African history of colonial contact, from North Atlantic slavery to the current era of globalization. It reads of the prolonged struggle for justice and of hybrid identities from multifaceted contexts, where the Bible co-exists with African Indigenous Religions, Islam, and other religions. Showcasing the dynamic and creative approaches of an emerging and thriving community of biblical scholarship from the African continent and African diaspora, the volume critically examines the interaction of biblical texts with African people and their cultures within a postcolonial framework. While employing feminist/womanist, postcolonial, Afrocentric, social engagement, creative writing, reconstruction, and HIV/AIDS perspectives, the authors all engage with empire in their own ways: in specific times, forms, and geography. This volume is an important addition to postcolonial and empires studies in biblical scholarship. The contributors are David Tuesday Adamo, Lynn Darden, H. J. M. (Hans) van Deventer, Musa W. Dube, John D. K. Ekem, Ernest M. Ezeogu, Elelwani B. Farisani, Sylvester A. Johnson, Emmanuel Katongole, Malebogo Kgalemang, Temba L. J. Mafico, Madipoane Masenya (ngwan’a Mphahlele), Andrew M. Mbuvi, Sarojini Nadar, Elivered Nasambu-Mulongo, Jeremy Punt, Gerrie Snyman, Lovemore Togarasei, Sam Tshehla, Robert Wafawanaka, Robert Wafula, Gerald West, Alice Y. Yafeh-Deigh, and Gosnell L. Yorke.
Postcolonial Perspectives in African Biblical Interpretations
Title | Postcolonial Perspectives in African Biblical Interpretations PDF eBook |
Author | Musa W. Dube |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781589837867 |
This volume foregrounds biblical interpretation within the African history of colonial contact, from North Atlantic slavery to the current era of globalization. It reads of the prolonged struggle for justice and of hybrid identities from multifaceted contexts, where the Bible co-exists with African Indigenous Religions, Islam, and other religions. Showcasing the dynamic and creative approaches of an emerging and thriving community of biblical scholarship from the African continent and African diaspora, the volume critically examines the interaction of biblical texts with African people and their cultures within a postcolonial framework. While employing feminist/womanist, postcolonial, Afrocentric, social engagement, creative writing, reconstruction, and HIV/AIDS perspectives, the authors all engage with empire in their own ways: in specific times, forms, and geography. This volume is an important addition to postcolonial and empires studies in biblical scholarship. The contributors are David Tuesday Adamo, Lynn Darden, H.J.M. (Hans) van Deventer, Musa W. Dube, John D.K. Ekem, Ernest M. Ezeogu, Elelwani B. Farisani, Sylvester A. Johnson, Emmanuel Katongole, Malebogo Kgalemang, Temba L.J. Mafico, Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele), Andrew M. Mbuvi, Sarojini Nadar, Elivered Nasambu-Mulongo, Jeremy Punt, Gerrie Snyman, Lovemore Togarasei, Sam Tshehla, Robert Wafawanaka, Robert Wafula, Gerald West, Alice Y. Yafeh-Deigh, and Gosnell L. Yorke.
Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible
Title | Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Musa W. Dube Shomanah |
Publisher | Chalice Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2012-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780827230576 |
Noting that the ways of interpreting the Bible now practiced in the West are patriarchal and oppressive of those in other parts of the world, Dube offers an alternative interpretation that attends to and respects needs of women in the two-thirds world. In a provocative and insightful reading of the book of Matthew, she shows us how to read the Bible as decolonizing rather than imperialist literature.
Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation
Title | Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation PDF eBook |
Author | Rasiah S. Sugirtharajah |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780198752691 |
In this stimulating study, R. S. Sugirtharajah explores the implications of postcolonial criticism for biblical studies. He reveals how postcolonial criticism can offer an alternative perspective to our understanding of the Bible, and how, when the Bible has been deployed as a Western cultural icon, it has come to be questioned in new ways.
Navigating African Biblical Hermeneutics
Title | Navigating African Biblical Hermeneutics PDF eBook |
Author | Madipoane Masenya Ngwan’a Mphahlele |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2019-01-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1527525783 |
This collection interrogates and engages the biblical text, colonial and postcolonial subjectivities and cultural assumptions, as well as lived experiences that encompass varying Africana contexts and Diasporas. In order to do this, it deploys methodologies, exegetical analyses and critical and constructive communal epistemologies. Framed by historical, literary, cultural and theological engagements of issues around wealth and power, gender, sexualities and masculinities, HIV and AIDS, as well as the crises of war and mass violence, the book will be very useful for students, academics, clergy and laity committed to Africana-conscious epistemologies and methodologies, and the impact on biblical studies.
The Bible in Africa
Title | The Bible in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald West |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 846 |
Release | 2021-10-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004497102 |
Although the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
The Bible and the Third World
Title | The Bible and the Third World PDF eBook |
Author | R. S. Sugirtharajah |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2001-06-11 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 9780521005241 |
A comprehensive history of the Bible in the Third World.