The Bible and the Third World
Subtitle: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521005241
Subjects: Christian mission & evangelism; The Bible; Hermeneutics; Christianity; Religion - Church History; Religion; Sociology of Religion; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Christianity - History - General; Bible--Hermeneutics; Religion / Bible / Criticism, Interpretation / General; Religion / Church History; Religion : Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Social Science : Sociology of Religion; Bible - Study - General; Bible; Developing countries; Postcolonial criticism
First sentence: As discussed in the introduction, there are three key junctures at which the Bible reached the Third World - precolonial, colonial and postcolonial.