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Voices from the margin : interpreting the Bible in the Third World / edited by R.S. Sugirtharajah.

Contributor(s): Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.)
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Revised and expanded third editionDescription: vi, 506 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1570756864 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781570756863 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible -- Hermeneutics -- Comparative studies | Christianity -- Developing countries | Christianity and culture | Bible. Exodus -- Hermeneutics -- Comparative studiesDDC classification: 220.609172/4 LOC classification: BS476 | .V65 2006Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction: Still at the margins / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- The Bible and the five hundred years conquest / Elsa Tamez -- Re-reading for liberation: African-American women and the Bible / Renita J. Weems -- Marxist critical tools: are they helpful in breaking the stranglehold of idealist hermeneutics? / Justin S. Ukpong -- Postcolonial biblical interpretation / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- Jesus and the Minjung in the gospel of Mark / Ahn Byung-Mu -- Breaking hegemonic boundaries: and intertextual reading of the Madurai Veeran legend and Mark's story of Jesus / A. Maria Arul Raja -- Anti-greed and anti-pride: Mark 10.17-27 and 10.35-45 in the light of tribal values / George M. Soares-Prabhu -- The Cornelius story in the Japanese cultural context / Hisao Kayama -- The forgiveness of debts in Matthew and Luke: for an economy without exclusions / Ivoni Richter Reimer -- The skin of Miriam became as white as snow: the Bible, western feminism and colour politics / Mukti Barton -- Wrestling the message from the messenger: the Rastafari as a case study in the Caribbean indigenization of the Bible / Nathaniel S. Murrell -- "Barak God and die": women, HIV, and a theology of suffering / Sarojini Nadar -- A Latin America perspective: the option for the poor in the Old Testament / George V. Pixley and Clodovis Boff --An Asian American feminist perspective: the Exodus story / An Asian group work -- A Palestinian perspective: biblical perspectives on the land / Naim S. Ateek -- A Native American perspective: Canaanites, cowboys, and Indians / Robert Allen Warrior --
Exodus-toward-Egypt: Filipino-Americans' struggle to realize the promised land in America / Eleazer S. Fernandez -- Let my people Go!": threads of Exodus in African American narratives / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- Returning to China: biblical interpretation in postcolonial Hong Kong / Archie C. C. Lee -- Reading for decolonization (John 4.1-42) / Musa W. Dube -- "Clothed in her right mind": Mark 5.1-20 and postcolonial discourse / Jeffrey L. Staley -- Two mission commands: an interpretation of Matthew 28.16-20 in the light of a Buddhist text / George M. Soares-Prabhu -- The book of Ecclesiastes and Thai Buddhism / Seree Lorgunpai -- Interpreting John 14.6 in a religiously plural society / S. Wesley Ariarajah -- The rhetorical hermeneutic of 1 Corinthians 8 and Chinese ancestor worship / Khiok-Khng Yeo -- Ego and self in New Testament and in Zen / Seiichi Yagi -- On developing liberation theology in Islam / Asghar Ali Engineer -- Wrestling at night / Samuel Rayan -- A Brazilian example: 'listening to what the Spirit is saying to the churches' - popular interpretation of the Bible in Brazil / Carlos Mesters -- A Malawian example: the Bible and non-literate communities / Patrick A. Kalilombe -- A Nicaraguan example: the alabaster bottle - Matthew 26.6-13 -- An Indonesian example: the miraculous catch - Luke 5. 1-11 -- Toward a post-apartheid black feminist reading of the Bible: a case of Luke 2. 36-38 / Gloria Kehilwe Plaatjie -- The role of the Bible in the rise of African instituted churches: the case of the Akurinu churches in Kenya / Nahashon W. Ndung'u -- Afterword: the future imperfect / R.S. Sugirtharajah.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 East BS476 .V65 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903109706

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: Still at the margins / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- The Bible and the five hundred years conquest / Elsa Tamez -- Re-reading for liberation: African-American women and the Bible / Renita J. Weems -- Marxist critical tools: are they helpful in breaking the stranglehold of idealist hermeneutics? / Justin S. Ukpong -- Postcolonial biblical interpretation / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- Jesus and the Minjung in the gospel of Mark / Ahn Byung-Mu -- Breaking hegemonic boundaries: and intertextual reading of the Madurai Veeran legend and Mark's story of Jesus / A. Maria Arul Raja -- Anti-greed and anti-pride: Mark 10.17-27 and 10.35-45 in the light of tribal values / George M. Soares-Prabhu -- The Cornelius story in the Japanese cultural context / Hisao Kayama -- The forgiveness of debts in Matthew and Luke: for an economy without exclusions / Ivoni Richter Reimer -- The skin of Miriam became as white as snow: the Bible, western feminism and colour politics / Mukti Barton -- Wrestling the message from the messenger: the Rastafari as a case study in the Caribbean indigenization of the Bible / Nathaniel S. Murrell -- "Barak God and die": women, HIV, and a theology of suffering / Sarojini Nadar -- A Latin America perspective: the option for the poor in the Old Testament / George V. Pixley and Clodovis Boff --An Asian American feminist perspective: the Exodus story / An Asian group work -- A Palestinian perspective: biblical perspectives on the land / Naim S. Ateek -- A Native American perspective: Canaanites, cowboys, and Indians / Robert Allen Warrior --

Exodus-toward-Egypt: Filipino-Americans' struggle to realize the promised land in America / Eleazer S. Fernandez -- Let my people Go!": threads of Exodus in African American narratives / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- Returning to China: biblical interpretation in postcolonial Hong Kong / Archie C. C. Lee -- Reading for decolonization (John 4.1-42) / Musa W. Dube -- "Clothed in her right mind": Mark 5.1-20 and postcolonial discourse / Jeffrey L. Staley -- Two mission commands: an interpretation of Matthew 28.16-20 in the light of a Buddhist text / George M. Soares-Prabhu -- The book of Ecclesiastes and Thai Buddhism / Seree Lorgunpai -- Interpreting John 14.6 in a religiously plural society / S. Wesley Ariarajah -- The rhetorical hermeneutic of 1 Corinthians 8 and Chinese ancestor worship / Khiok-Khng Yeo -- Ego and self in New Testament and in Zen / Seiichi Yagi -- On developing liberation theology in Islam / Asghar Ali Engineer -- Wrestling at night / Samuel Rayan -- A Brazilian example: 'listening to what the Spirit is saying to the churches' - popular interpretation of the Bible in Brazil / Carlos Mesters -- A Malawian example: the Bible and non-literate communities / Patrick A. Kalilombe -- A Nicaraguan example: the alabaster bottle - Matthew 26.6-13 -- An Indonesian example: the miraculous catch - Luke 5. 1-11 -- Toward a post-apartheid black feminist reading of the Bible: a case of Luke 2. 36-38 / Gloria Kehilwe Plaatjie -- The role of the Bible in the rise of African instituted churches: the case of the Akurinu churches in Kenya / Nahashon W. Ndung'u -- Afterword: the future imperfect / R.S. Sugirtharajah.

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