Colonialism and the Bible: Contemporary Reflections from the Global South
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Overview
This volume addresses the problematic relationship between colonialism and the Bible. It does so from the perspective of the Global South, calling upon voices from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors address the present state of the problematic relationship in their respective geopolitical and geographical contexts. In so doing, they provide sharp analyses of the past, the present, and the future: historical contexts and trajectories, contemporary legacies and junctures, and future projects and strategies. Taken together, the essays provide a rich and expansive comparative framework across the globe.
Introductions
Colonialism and the Bible: A Critical Stock-taking from the Global South
Fernando F. Segovia
Bible and Colonialism: What Does the New Testament Really Say?
Tat-siong Benny Liew
Part I Africa and the Middle East
1. Interrogating Identity: A Christian Egyptian Reading of the Hagar-Ishmael Traditions
Safwat Marzouk
2. The Bible as Tool of Colonization: The Zimbabwean Context
Dora Mbuwayesango
3. Postwar Hermeneutics: Bible and Colony-Related Necropolitics
Kenneth Ngwa
4. The Bible as a De-colonial Tool for Palestinian Christians Today
Michael Elias Andraos
5. Israeli Cinema's Interpretations of the Biblical Imperative of Colonization
Yael Munk
6. Towards a Post-Colonial Hermeneutics for the Palestinian Context
Mitri Raheb
Part II Asia and the Pacific
7. Colonial Storms and Postcolonial Moves: Exploring Alternative Filipino Biblical Hermeneutics
Eleazar S. Fernandez
8. Carrying Out “The Great Commission” until the “Second Coming of Christ”?: Overseas Mission Currents in the Context of U.S. Military Imperialism
Nami Kim
9. The Jesuit Missionary Enterprise: Christianity, Slave Trade, and Gun Powder Enter Japan
Hisako Kinukawa
10. Evoking the Bible at a Funeral in an Indian-Christian Community
J. Jayakiran Sebastian
11. Bible and Colonization: Aotearoa New Zealand
Jenny Te Paa Daniel
Part III Latin America and the Caribbean
12. The Most Burning of Lavas: The Bible in Latin America
Nancy Elizabeth Bedford
13. La biblia, la mar y el Caribe / The Bible, the Sea, and the Caribbean: Late 19th to Early 21st Century
Carlos F. Cardoza Orlandi
14. Without the Bible: A New Liberation Theology
Ivan Petrella
15. Transfiguration: The Figural Approach to Reading the Bible in Latin America
Vítor Westhelle
The emanation of the contributions from very different socio-political settings ensures a great variety of approaches. The project also demonstrates clearly the usefulness and adaptability of the late Michael Prior’s work on the Palestinian question and his unquestionable influence on all the authors and editors of the book.
Biblical scholars and theologians from the so-called Third World have been researching the way the Bible has been (mis)understood and (mis)used in and outside the Churches during the Western colonial enterprise, but this volume is the first to investigate the issue thoroughly and comprehensively from the global perspective. Future studies of the mutual implication between the Bible and colonialism in Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean will benefit immensely from this landmark overview.
This engaging and eminently readable volume goes a long way to clarify the complicated story of the Bible’s involvement both in colonization and emancipation. It is a must-read for anyone grappling with old and new empires. The essays provide a valuable primer on colonial/postcolonial discourse analysis.
In this timely volume of largely socio-cultural critical essays, and in the tradition of liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonizing discourses and movements, scholars who represent the Global South tease out the multifaceted, ambiguous, and complex intersections between colonialism and the Christian Bible.
Product Details
- Title : Colonialism and the Bible: Contemporary Reflections from the Global South
- Authors:
- Liew, Tat-siong Benny
- Segovia, Fernando F.
- Andraos, Michel Elias
- Bedford, Nancy Elizabeth
- Cardoza Orlandi, Carlos F.
- Fernandez, Eleazar S.
- Kim, Nami
- Kinukawa, Hisako
- Liew, Tat-siong Benny
- Marzouk, Safwat
- Mbuwayasengo, Dora
- Munk, Yael
- Ngwa, Kenneth
- Petrella, Ivan
- Raheb, Mitri
- Sebastian, J. Jayakiran
- Segovia, Fernando F.
- Te Paa Daniel, Jenny
- Westhelle, Vítor
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Publication Date: 2018
- ISBN: 9781498572767
Tat-siong Benny Liew is Class of 1956 Professor in New Testament Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.
Fernando F. Segovia is Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Vanderbilt University.