Colonialism and the Bible
Subtitle: contemporary reflections from the global south
By: edited by Tat-siong Benny Liew and Fernando F. Segovia
Series: Postcolonial and decolonial studies in religion and theology; Postcolonial and decolonial studies in religion and theology
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781498572750; 9781498572767
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Postcolonial criticism of sacred works; Postcolonial criticism; Bible
Description: This volume addresses the problematic relationship between colonialism and the Bible. It does so from the perspective of the Global South, calling upon voices from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors address the present state of the problematic relationship in their respective geopolitical and geographical contexts. In so doing, they provide sharp analyses of the past, the present, and the future: historical contexts and trajectories, contemporary legacies and junctures, and future projects and strategies. Taken together, the essays provide a rich and expansive comparative framework across the globe. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonialism and the Bible : a critical stock-taking from the global south  -- Fernando F. Segovia; title: Bible and colonialism : what does the New Testament really say?  -- Tat-siong Benny Liew; title: Interrogating identity : a Christian Egyptian reading of the Hagar-Ishmael traditions  -- Safwat Marzouk; title: The Bible as tool of colonization : the Zimbabwean context  -- Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango; title: Postwar hermeneutics : Bible and colony-related necropolitics  -- Kenneth Ngwa; title: The Bible as a de-colonial tool for Palestinian Christians today  -- Michel Elias Andraos; title: Israeli cinema's interpretations of the biblical imperative of colonization  -- Yael Munk; title: Towards a postcolonial hermeneutics for the Palestinian context  -- Mitri Raheb; title: Colonial storms and postcolonial moves : exploring alternative Filipino biblical hermeneutics  -- Eleazar S. Fernandez; title: Carrying out "the great commission" until the "second coming of Christ"? : overseas mission currents in the context of US military imperialism  -- Nami Kim; title: The Jesuit missionary enterprise : Christianity, slave trade, and gun powder enter Japan  -- Hisako Kinukawa; title: Evoking the Bible at a funeral in an Indian-Christian Community  -- J. Jayakiran Sebastian; title: Bible and colonization : Aotearoa New Zealand  -- Jenny Te Paa Daniel; title: The most burning of lavas : the Bible in Latin America  -- Nancy Elizabeth Bedford; title: La biblia, la mary el Caribe/the Bible, the sea, and the Caribbean : late 19th to early 21st century  -- Carlos F. Cardoza Orlandi; title: Without the Bible : a new liberation theology  -- Ivan Petrella; title: Transfiguration : the figural approach to reading the Bible in Latin America  -- Vítor Westhelle; title: Colonialism and the Bible : trajectories, evaluations, proposals -- Fernando F. Segovia.