Introducing ordinary African readers' hermeneutics
Subtitle: a case study of the Agĩkũyũ encounter with the Bible
By: Johnson Kiriaku Kinyua
Series: Religions and discourse -- 54; Religions and discourse -- v. 54.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9783034302890
Subjects: Religion; Kikuyu (African people); Bible; Criticism, interpretation; African Versions; Hermeneutics; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial theory; title: Bible and colonial identities: colonial constructions, representations and marginality; title: Location of culture in the colonial hermeneutics: ambivalence, mimicry, and hybridity; title: Bible translation and the discourse of colonalism: the Gĩkũyũ bible; title: The role of common sense hermeneutics: the translated texts and the types of reading; title: Resistance as a discursive practice; title: The discourse of resistance and the "hidden transcript": the revival option; title: Towards an ordinary African readers' hermeneutics; title: General conclusion.