This stimulating study explores the implications of postcolonial criticism for biblical studies. Sugirtharajah provides a comprehensive overview of the origins, definitions, and procedures of postcolonial criticism, followed by a discussion of its significance in biblical interpretation. He reveals how postcolonial criticism can offer new perspectives to our understanding of the Bible and of how Western Imperialism has shaped Christianity.
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R. S. Sugirtharajah is a Reader in Biblical Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham.His publications include The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters, The Postcolonial Bible, Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism, and is general editor of The Bible and Postcolonialism series (Sheffield Academic Press).
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Las Casas, Third World, English Bible, United States, King James Version, Geneva Bible, New Testament, Latin American, Bible Society, Appasamy Pillai, Orbis Books, Ahmed Khan, Jesus Christ, Edward Said, Indian Christians, Roman Catholic, Great Bible, John the Baptist, Sheffield Academic Press, Bill Ashcroft, Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Christian Church, First World, Old Testament New!
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- The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents) by Bill Ashcroft on 4 pages
- Ethnicity and the Bible by Dana de Priest on 4 pages
- Postcolonial Bible (Bible & Postcolonialism) by R. S. Sugirtharajah on page 102, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Life of Jesus (Great Minds Series) by Ernest Renan on page 75, page 78, and Back Matter
- Post-Colonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon (Post-Colonial Studies) by Deborah L. Madsen on page 42, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Reconstructing Old Testament Theology: After the Collapse of History (Overtures to Biblical Theology) by Leo G. Perdue on 7 pages
- Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World by R. S. Sugirtharajah on 6 pages
- The Bible and Empire: Postcolonial Explorations by R. S. Sugirtharajah on 4 pages
- Her Master's Tools?: Feminist And Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-Critical Discourse (Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship) by et al Caroline Vander Stichele (Editor) on 4 pages
- The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age by John J. Collins on page 69, and Back Matter
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