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Colonialism and the Bible : contemporary reflections from the global south / edited by Tat-siong Benny Liew and Fernando F. Segovia.

Contributor(s): Liew, Tat-siong Benny [editor.] | Segovia, Fernando F [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Postcolonial and decolonial studies in religion and theology: Publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xxxi, 336 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781498572750; 1498572758Subject(s): Bible -- Postcolonial criticismDDC classification: 220.609172/4 LOC classification: BS521.86 | .C65 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 -- Africa and the Middle East -- Interrogating identity: a Christian Egyptian reading of the Hagar-Ishmael traditions / Safwat Marzouk -- The Bible as tool of colonization: the Zimbabwean context / Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango -- Postwar hermeneutics: Bible and colony-related necropolitics / Kenneth Ngwa -- The Bible as a de-colonial tool for Palestinian Christians today / Michel Elias Andraos -- Israeli cinema's interpretations of the biblical imperative of colonization / Yael Munk -- Towards a postcolonial hermeneutics for the Palestinian context / Mitri Raheb -- Asia and the Pacific -- Colonial storms and postcolonial moves: exploring alternative Filipino biblical hermeneutics / Eleazar S. Fernandez -- Carrying out "The Great Commission" until the "Second Coming of Christ"?: Overseas mission currents in the context of US military imperialism / Nami Kim -- The Jesuit missionary enterprise: Christianity, slave trade, and gun powder enter Japan / Hisako Kinukawa -- Evoking the Bible at a funeral in an Indian-Christian community / J. Jayakiran Sebastian -- Bible and colonization: Aotearoa New Zealand / Jenny Te Paa Daniel -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- The most burning of lavas: the Bible in Latin America / Nancy Elizabeth Bedford -- La biblia, la mar y el Caribe/The Bible, the sea, and the Caribbean: late 19th to early 21st century / Carlos F. Cardoza Orlandi -- Without the Bible: a new liberation theology / Ivan Petrella -- Transfiguration: the figural approach to reading the Bible in Latin America / Vítor Westhelle -- Colonialism and the Bible: trajectories, evaluations, proposals / Fernando F. Segovia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Interrogating identity: a Christian Egyptian reading of the Hagar-Ishmael traditions / Safwat Marzouk -- The Bible as tool of colonization: the Zimbabwean context / Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango -- Postwar hermeneutics: Bible and colony-related necropolitics / Kenneth Ngwa -- The Bible as a de-colonial tool for Palestinian Christians today / Michel Elias Andraos -- Israeli cinema's interpretations of the biblical imperative of colonization / Yael Munk -- Towards a postcolonial hermeneutics for the Palestinian context / Mitri Raheb -- Part II: Asia and the Pacific -- Colonial storms and postcolonial moves: exploring alternative Filipino biblical hermeneutics / Eleazar S. Fernandez -- Carrying out "The Great Commission" until the "Second Coming of Christ"?: Overseas mission currents in the context of US military imperialism / Nami Kim -- The Jesuit missionary enterprise: Christianity, slave trade, and gun powder enter Japan / Hisako Kinukawa -- Evoking the Bible at a funeral in an Indian-Christian community / J. Jayakiran Sebastian -- Bible and colonization: Aotearoa New Zealand / Jenny Te Paa Daniel -- Part III: Latin America and the Caribbean -- The most burning of lavas: the Bible in Latin America / Nancy Elizabeth Bedford -- La biblia, la mar y el Caribe/The Bible, the sea, and the Caribbean: late 19th to early 21st century / Carlos F. Cardoza Orlandi -- Without the Bible: a new liberation theology / Ivan Petrella -- Transfiguration: the figural approach to reading the Bible in Latin America / Vítor Westhelle -- Conclusion: Colonialism and the Bible: trajectories, evaluations, proposals / Fernando F. Segovia.

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