Postcolonial interventions
Subtitle: essays in honor of R.S. Sugirtharajah
By: edited by Tat-siong Benny Liew
Contributors: Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.)
Series: The Bible in the modern world -- 23; Bible in the modern world -- 23.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press; Brand: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd; Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781906055707
Subjects: Bible; Postkolonialismus; Soziales System; Bibel; Hermeneutik; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Kontextuelle Theologie; Entkolonialisierung; Postcolonial criticism of sacred works; Postcolonial criticism; Politik; Biblische Hermeneutik
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Intervening on the postcolonial / Tat-siong Benny Liew; title: Reading race reading Rahab / Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan, Mai-Anh Le Tran; title: Canaanite women and Israelite women in Deuteronomy / Dora R. Mbuwayesango; title: In-location as textual trans-version : a study in John 4.1-42 / Sathianathan Clarke, Sharon H. Ringe; title: Metonymies of empire : sexual humiliation and gender masquerade in the book of Revelation / Stephen D. Moore; title: Challenging the empire : the conscience of the prophet and prophetic dissent from a postcolonial perspective / Hamchand Gossai; title: Resistance versus accomodation : what do we do with Romans 13? / Roland Boer; title: Slave women and freedom / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza; title: Diaspora, Babel, Pentecost, and the strangers in our midst : birthing a church of radical hospitality / Eleazar S. Fernandez; title: Scriptures for strangers : the making of an African-ized Bible / Vincent L. Wimbush; title: On walking through the cemetery / J. Jayakiran Sebastian; title: 'Come over and help us' / Jeffrey L. Staley; title: Tracing Sugirtharajah's voice from the margin / Fernado F. Segovia; title: Teaching Sugirtharajah / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher; title: What difference does postcolonial criticism make? / Gerald O. West; title: Postcolonial theory as academic double agent? / Jeremy Punt; title: One step beyond or one step too far? / Ralph Broadbent; title: Can we read religious texts interreligiously? / Peter C. Phan; title: Land of the Kauri and the long white cloud : beginning to read Matthew 1-2 ecologically / Elaine M. Wainwright; title: Elemental bonds : scene for an earthly postcolonial theology / Mayra Rivera.