Bible Study as Postcolonial Witnessing: An Indonesian Christian Intergenerational, Intertextual, and Intercultural Narrative of the Afterlife
This article contextualizes Stef Craps’ concept of postcolonial witnessing and Shelly Rambo's concept of the afterlife of trauma to offer a model of Bible study as a postcolonial witnessing to the afterlife. The aim is to identify the contextual and multilayered dimensions of Bible study as a w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2024
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International review of mission
Year: 2024, Volume: 113, Issue: 1, Pages: 68-91 |
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intergenerational-intertextual-intercultural narrative of the afterlife
B rupturing presence of violence B postcolonial witnessing B Cultural Trauma B Bible study |
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| Summary: | This article contextualizes Stef Craps’ concept of postcolonial witnessing and Shelly Rambo's concept of the afterlife of trauma to offer a model of Bible study as a postcolonial witnessing to the afterlife. The aim is to identify the contextual and multilayered dimensions of Bible study as a witnessing practice embedded in an Indonesian local Christian community's story of post-religious communal violence and cultural trauma and its rereading of the Bible as a narrative of the afterlife. The community's story unveils an intergenerational community of survivors witnessing life within the intersection of the rupturing presence of violence, mission history, and its collective memory. I argue that a contextual Bible study from the lens of the afterlife imbued with a local Christian community's story of trauma and witnessing exemplifies an intergenerational, intertextual, and intercultural witnessing of life – thus, a postcolonial witnessing – which is relevant to mission studies in the context of trauma history and interreligious relationships. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6631 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International review of mission
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/irom.12490 |