RT Book
T1 The Bible and the Third World: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial encounters
A1 Sugirtharajah, R.
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2001
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883426846
AB This innovative study moves briskly but comprehensively through three phases of the Third World's encounter with the Bible - precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. It recounts the remarkable story of how an inaccessible and marginal book in the ancient churches of India, China and North Africa became an important tool in the hands of both coloniser and colonised; how it has been reclaimed in the postcolonial world; and how it is now being reread by various indigenes, Native Americans, dalits and women. Drawing on substantial exegetical examples, Sugirtharajah examines reading practices ranging from the vernacular to liberation and the newly-emerging postcolonial criticism. His study emphasises the often overlooked biblical reflections of people such as Equiano and Ramabai as well as better-known contemporaries like Gutiérrez and Tamez. Partly historical and partly hermeneutical, the volume will serve as an invaluable introduction to the Bible in the Third World for students and interested general readers.
OP 306
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BS476
SN 9780511612619
K1 Bible : Postcolonial criticism : Developing countries
K1 Bible : Hermeneutics
K1 Christianity : Developing countries
K1 Bible ; Hermeneutics
K1 Bible ; Postcolonial criticism ; Developing countries
K1 Christianity ; Developing countries
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511612619