TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sugirtharajah,R.S.
TI  - The Bible and the Third World: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial encounters 
SN  - 9780521005241
AV  - BS476.S947.B535 2001 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Hermeneutics
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Developing countries
N1  - 1 (pages 283-297) and indexes; 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; 2
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