The precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial encounters Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.) creator text bibliography Electronic books. Geschiedenis (vorm) enk Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 2001 monographic eng 1 online resource (x, 306 pages) This is a comprehensive history of the Bible in the Third World from precolonial days to the postcolonial period. It examines the work of theologians from the non-Western world. The volume is an invaluable guide to anyone interested in learning about the impact of the Bible on Third World cultures. Part I. Precolonial Reception : -- 1. Before the empire : the Bible as a marginal and a minority text : -- India : liturgical and iconic usage -- China : the surrogate Bible : monuments and manuscripts -- Africa : Latin Bible and local controversies -- Part II. Colonial Embrace : -- 2. White men bearing gifts : diffusion of the Bible and scriptural imperialism : -- Venerable versions and paucity of Bibles -- Cheap Bibles and scriptural imperialism -- Marks of colonial hermeneutics -- 3. Reading back : resistance as a discursive practice : -- An emancipator as emancipator of texts: Olaudah Equiano and his textual allusions -- Confluence of histories : William Apess and textual reclamations -- Textual conversations : K.N. Banerjea and his Vedas -- Textual management : Pandita Ramabai and her Bible -- African emancipatory movements and their Bibles --4. The colonialist as a contentious reader : Colenso and his hermeneutics : -- Out of the mouths of the heathen -- Cleansing the contradictions -- Exegetical contestation -- The sacred text improved and restored -- Situating Colenso in the colonial discourse -- 5. Textual pedlars : distributing salvation : colporteurs and their portable Bibles : -- Bartering the word of God -- Errant readers and indecent cultures : effects of the Society's Bible -- The colporteur's book -- Changed by the text -- Omens out of the Book : non-readerly use and non-textual attitudes -- Construction of racial images -- Part III. Postcolonial Reclamations : -- 6. Desperately seeking the indigene : nativism and vernacular hermeneutics -- Vernacularization and biblical interpretation -- The vernacular in metropolitan context -- Some affirming and constructive thoughts -- 7. Engaging liberation : texts as a vehicle of emancipation : -- Classical liberation hermeneutics -- Radical reading within the margins : peoples' appropriation of the Bible -- Identity-specific readings -- 8. Postcolonializing biblical interpretation : -- Streams of postcoloniality -- Postcolonial criticism and biblical studies -- Liberation hermeneutics and postcolonial criticism : shall the twain meet? -- Some deck-clearing exercises -- Consequences, concerns and cautions. R.S. Sugirtharajah. Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and indexes. d------ Hermeneutics Criticism, interpretation, etc Developing countries History Herméneutique Christianity Developing countries Christianisme Pays en voie de développement BIBLES General RELIGION Biblical Reference General RELIGION Biblical Reference Christianity Hermeneutics Developing countries Bijbel Interpretatie Christentum Entwicklungsländer BS476 .S85 2001eb 220/.09172/4 11.33 BB 1842 BL 7750 Sugirtharajah, R.S. (Rasiah S.). Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 (DLC) 00065173 (OCoLC)45439782 0511012241 9780511012242 0521773350 9780521773355 0521005248 9780521005241 9780511612619 0511612613 9780511049903 0511049900 0511152728 9780511152726 1280429569 9781280429569 EBL157019 eBook Library http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=72944 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=72944 N$T 021210 20200709055103.0 ocm51202698 eng