The Bible And Colonialism

Author : Michael Prior
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567369222

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The Bible and Colonialism by Michael Prior Pdf

The biblical claim of the divine promise of land is integrally linked with a divine mandate to exterminate the indigenous people. The narrative has supported virtually all Western colonizing enterprises (e.g. in Latin America, South Africa, Palestine), resulting in the suffering of millions of people, and loss of respect for the Bible. According to modern secular standards of human and political rights, what the biblical narrative calls for are war-crimes and crimes against humanity. In this provocative and compelling study, Prior protests at the neglect of the moral question in conventional biblical studies, and attempts to rescue the Bible from being a blunt instrument in the oppression of people.

Author : Tat-siong Benny Liew,Fernando F. Segovia
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498572767

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Colonialism and the Bible by Tat-siong Benny Liew,Fernando F. Segovia Pdf

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.

Author : Michael P. Prior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : OCLC:1148142746

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The Bible and Colonialism by Michael P. Prior Pdf

Author : R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-11
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0521005248

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The Bible and the Third World by R. S. Sugirtharajah Pdf

A comprehensive history of the Bible in the Third World.

Author : Heinrichs, Steve
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337903

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Unsettling the Word by Heinrichs, Steve Pdf

Author : Nur Masalha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317544647

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The Zionist Bible by Nur Masalha Pdf

Throughout the history of European imperialism the grand narratives of the Bible have been used to justify settler-colonialism. "The Zionist Bible" explores the ways in which modern political Zionism and Israeli militarism have used the Bible - notably the Book of Joshua and its description of the entry of the Israelites into the Promised Land - as an agent of oppression and to support settler-colonialism in Palestine. The rise of messianic Zionism in the late 1960s saw the beginnings of a Jewish theology of zealotocracy, based on the militant land traditions of the Bible and justifying the destruction of the previous inhabitants. "The Zionist Bible" examines how the birth and growth of the State of Israel has been shaped by this Zionist reading of the Bible, how it has refashioned Israeli-Jewish collective memory, erased and renamed Palestinian topography, and how critical responses to this reading have challenged both Jewish and Palestinian nationalism.

Author : Steed Vernyl Davidson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004357679

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Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective by Steed Vernyl Davidson Pdf

An examination of postcolonial studies as a revolutionary discourse that presses for a vigorous postcolonializing of the Bible. With an assessment of previous work in the field, intersectional work with sexuality, terrorism, technology, and ecology are set as future tasks.

Author : Nur Masalha
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1842777610

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The Bible and Zionism by Nur Masalha Pdf

This text investigates the Biblical justification for Zionism & charts the historical rise of Zionism since its 19th century roots. Providing a contribution to the argument for a single democratic & secular Israeli state, it shows how the biblical language of 'chosen people' & 'promised land' is used to justify ethnic division & violence.

Author : Mark G. Brett
Publisher : Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131748381

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Decolonizing God by Mark G. Brett Pdf

For centuries, the Bible has been used by colonial powers to undergird their imperial designs--an ironic situation when so much of the Bible was conceived by way of resistance to empires. In this thoughtful book, Mark Brett draws upon his experience of the colonial heritage in Australia to identify a remarkable range of areas where God needs to be decolonized--freed from the bonds of the colonial. Writing in a context where landmark legal cases have ruled that Indigenous (Aboriginal) rights have been 'washed away by the tide of history', Brett re-examines land rights in the biblical traditions, Deuteronomy's genocidal imagination, and other key topics in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament where the effects of colonialism can be traced. Drawing out the implications for theology and ethics, this book provides a comprehensive new proposal for addressing the legacies of colonialism. A ground-breaking work of scholarship that makes a major intervention into post-colonial studies. This book confirms the relevance of post-colonial theory to biblical scholarship and provides an exciting and original approach to biblical interpretation. Bill Ashcroft, University of Hong Kong and University of New South Wales; author of The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (2002). Acutely sensitive to the historical as well as theological complexity of the Bible, Mark Brett's Decolonizing God brilliantly demonstrates the value of a critical assessment of the Bible as a tool for rethinking contemporary possibilities. The contribution of this book to ethical and theological discourse in a global perspective and to a politics of hope is immense. Tamara C. Eskenazi, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles; editor of The Torah: A Women's Commentary (2007).

Author : R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850759731

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Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism by R. S. Sugirtharajah Pdf

The volume contributes a postcolonial perspective to such topics as textual production, commentarial writings and translations in colonial times, and then moves on to inspect Eurocentric notions embedded in current western biblical interpretation especially in projects such as "Jesus Research." It also contains an overview of and introduction to one of the most challenging and controversial theories of our time, postcolonialism--a theory that gives mediation and representation to Third World people. Though long established in cultural studies, postcolonial theory has not previously been seriously applied to Asian biblical interpretation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589837720

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Postcolonialism and the Hebrew Bible by Anonim Pdf

This volume returns to where initial interest in postcolonial biblical criticism began: the Hebrew Bible. It does so not to celebrate the significant achievements of postcolonial analysis over the last few decades but to ask what the next step might be. In these essays, established and newer scholars, many from the interstices of global scholarship, discuss specific texts, neo/post/colonial situations, and theoretical issues. Moving from the Caribbean to Greenland, from Ezra-Nehemiah to the Gibeonites, this collection seeks out new territory, new questions, and possibly some new answers. The contributors are Roland Boer, Steed Davidson, Richard Horsley, Uriah Y. Kim, Judith McKinlay, Johnny Miles, Althea Spencer-Miller, Leo Perdue, Christina Petterson, Joerg Rieger, and Gerald West.

Author : Gerald West,Musa Dube
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004497108

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The Bible in Africa by Gerald West,Musa Dube Pdf

Although the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Author : C.L. Crouch,Jonathan Stökl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004259126

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In the Name of God by C.L. Crouch,Jonathan Stökl Pdf

In In the Name of God biblical scholars and historians begin the exciting work of deconstructing British and Spanish imperial usage of the Bible as well as the use of the Bible to counteract imperialism.

Author : Gerald O. West
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004322783

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The Stolen Bible by Gerald O. West Pdf

The Stolen Bible analyses Southern African receptions of the Bible from its arrival in imperial Dutch ships in the mid-1600s through to the post-apartheid period of South African democracy, reflecting on how a tool of imperialism becomes an African icon.

Author : R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139443704

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The Bible and Empire by R. S. Sugirtharajah Pdf

At a time of renewed interest in Empire, this stimulating volume explores the complex relationship between the Bible and the colonial enterprise, and examines some overlooked aspects of this relationship. These include unconventional retellings of the gospel story of Jesus by Thomas Jefferson and Raja Rammohun Roy; the fate of biblical texts when marshalled by Victorian preachers to strengthen British imperial intentions after the India uprising of 1857; the cultural-political use of the Christian Old Testament, first by the invaders to attack temple practices and rituals, then by the invaded to endorse the temple heritage scorned by missionaries; the dissident hermeneutics of James Long and William Colenso confronting and compromising with colonial ambitions; and finally the subtly seditious deployment of biblical citations in two colonial novels. This innovative book offers both practical and theoretical insights and provides compelling evidence of the continuing importance of postcolonial discourse for biblical studies.