Colonialism and the Bible - Contemporary Reflections From the Global South

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.

List of contents

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 19^th to Early 21^st 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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tat-Siong Benny Segovia Liew
• Assisted by: Tat-Siong Benny Liew (Editor), Liew Tat-siong Benny (Editor), Fernando F. Segovia (Editor), Segovia Fernando F. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781498572774
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7277-4
• No. of pages: 398
• Series: Postcolonial and Decolonial St; Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Religion / Christian Church / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Christian mission & evangelism, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Christian institutions & organizations, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Religious institutions and organizations, Biblical Studies & Exegesis