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The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters

Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters

by R. S. Sugirtharajah (University of Birmingham)

  • Hardback
  • 318 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.3 cm

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For students and readers interested in biblical studies

Unveils the Bible's role in precolonial and postcolonial contexts

You will gain insights into diverse interpretations and stories

This book explores the Bible's impact in the Third World through history.

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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 Gutierrez 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.
The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters and Postcolonial Reconfigurations
Postcolonial ReconfigurationsThe Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters

  • Author

    R. S. Sugirtharajah (University of Birmingham)

  • Book Format

    hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    June 2001

  • Weight

    523g

  • Page Count

    318

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521773355

  • ISBN-10

    0521773350

  • Eden Code

    10745

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