On Comparability
This study examines the instance of comparatism in African biblical hermeneutics, particularly the comparison of ancient cultural contexts with modern ‘African’ contexts. The study critically interrogates the conceptual dynamics of this process, and aims to discern some possible power strategies in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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Religion & theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 22, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 46-68 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BS Traditional African religions CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations FD Contextual theology HA Bible KBN Sub-Saharan Africa VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
African Hermeneutics
comparative studies
ancient culture
biblical studies
African religion
cultural history
endo-colonialism
Foucault
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This study examines the instance of comparatism in African biblical hermeneutics, particularly the comparison of ancient cultural contexts with modern ‘African’ contexts. The study critically interrogates the conceptual dynamics of this process, and aims to discern some possible power strategies in this process. A definitive sample of studies on ancient backgrounds and African contexts are examined and the process of comparatism is delineated. Thereafter, the study traces the development of biblical-historical “background” studies in the nineteenth and twentieth century, and thereafter makes some suggestions in the supplementation of background studies in the (Southern-) African hermeneutical enterprise, namely a focus not so much on postcoloniality, but on current colonising enterprises and a more critical operation of historical and cultural comparatism. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1574-3012 |
| Contains: | In: Religion & theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02201004 |