Troublesome texts
Subtitle: the Bible in colonial and contemporary culture
By: R.S. Sugirtharajah.
Series: Bible in the modern world -- 17
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781906055387
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible -- Postcolonial criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[149]-154) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Colonial sub-texts, postcolonial strategies. Guatama and the Galilean : Victorian lives of  two masters; title: Subjecting the Johannine letters to postcolonial criticism; title: The Sermon on the mount and colonial India : the transgressive readings of Raja Rammohun Roy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; title: Postcolonial criticism and biblical interpretation : the next phase; title: pt. 2. Contemporary issues, incompatible texts. Tsunami, trauma and text : hermeneutics after the Asian deluge; title: Texts and terrorism : communal strife, sacred scriptures and secular stories; title: pt. 3. Mainstream agendas, marginal uneasiness. Scripture, scholarship, empire : putting the discipline in its place; title: Future imperfect : Asia, the bible and biblical interpretation; title: pt. 4. Theories, re-tracings. Catching the post of how I became an accidental theorist.