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Troublesome texts : the Bible in colonial and contemporary culture / R.S. Sugirtharajah.

By: Series: Bible in the modern world ; 17Publication details: Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008.Description: vi, 161 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1906055386
  • 9781906055387
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 248.4 22
LOC classification:
  • BS476 .S84 2008
Contents:
Pt. 1. Colonial sub-texts, postcolonial strategies. Guatama and the Galilean : Victorian lives of two masters -- Subjecting the Johannine letters to postcolonial criticism -- The Sermon on the mount and colonial India : the transgressive readings of Raja Rammohun Roy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -- Postcolonial criticism and biblical interpretation : the next phase -- pt. 2. Contemporary issues, incompatible texts. Tsunami, trauma and text : hermeneutics after the Asian deluge -- Texts and terrorism : communal strife, sacred scriptures and secular stories -- pt. 3. Mainstream agendas, marginal uneasiness. Scripture, scholarship, empire : putting the discipline in its place -- Future imperfect : Asia, the bible and biblical interpretation -- pt. 4. Theories, re-tracings. Catching the post of how I became an accidental theorist.
Holdings
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Book Book Dalton McCaughey Library Level 1 CF12 S947 T Available 33865001186656
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p.[149]-154) and indexes.

Pt. 1. Colonial sub-texts, postcolonial strategies. Guatama and the Galilean : Victorian lives of two masters -- Subjecting the Johannine letters to postcolonial criticism -- The Sermon on the mount and colonial India : the transgressive readings of Raja Rammohun Roy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -- Postcolonial criticism and biblical interpretation : the next phase -- pt. 2. Contemporary issues, incompatible texts. Tsunami, trauma and text : hermeneutics after the Asian deluge -- Texts and terrorism : communal strife, sacred scriptures and secular stories -- pt. 3. Mainstream agendas, marginal uneasiness. Scripture, scholarship, empire : putting the discipline in its place -- Future imperfect : Asia, the bible and biblical interpretation -- pt. 4. Theories, re-tracings. Catching the post of how I became an accidental theorist.