Troublesome texts : the Bible in colonial and contemporary culture / R.S. Sugirtharajah.
Series: Bible in the modern world ; 17Publication details: Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008.Description: vi, 161 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1906055386
- 9781906055387
- 248.4 22
- BS476 .S84 2008
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Dalton McCaughey Library | Level 1 | CF12 S947 T | Available | 33865001186656 |
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.