Introducing Ordinary African Readers’ Hermeneutics and Catholic Bible

Introducing Ordinary African Readers’ Hermeneutics

Name: Introducing Ordinary African Readers’ Hermeneutics
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Author: Johnson Kinyua
ISBN: 9783034302890

A Case Study of the Agikuyu Encounter with the Bible

by Johnson Kinyua

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15.3 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

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This book introduces the concept ordinary African readers' hermeneutics in a study of the reception of the Bible in postcolonial Africa. It looks beyond the scholarly and official church-based material to the way in which the Bible, and discourses on or from the Bible, are utilized within a wide range of diverse contexts. The author shows that ordinary readers can and did engage in meaningful and liberating hermeneutics. Using the Agikuyu's encounter with the Bible as an example, he demonstrates that what colonial discourses commonly circulated about Africans were not always the truth, but mere representations that were hardly able to fix African identities, as they were often characterized by certain ambivalences, anxieties and contradictions. The hybridized Biblical texts, readings and interpretations generated through retrieval and incorporation of the defunct pre-colonial past created interstices that became sites for assimilation, questioning and resistance. The book explores how Africans employed allusion as a valid method of interpretation, showing how the critical principle of interpretation lies not in the Bible itself, but in the community of readers willing to cultivate dialogical imagination in order to articulate their vision. The author proposes an African hermeneutical theory, which involves the fusion of both the scholarly and the ordinary readers in the task of biblical interpretation within a specific socio-cultural context.

Author
Johnson Kinyua
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published
June 2011
Edition
1st New edition
Weight
386g
Page Count
371
Dimensions
15.3 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm
ISBN
9783034302890
ISBN-10
3034302894
Eden Code
4039254

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