John and Postcolonialism
Travel, Space, and Power
Published on 1. August 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
268 pages
978-1-84127-312-9 (ISBN)
Description
An exciting collection of essays connecting postcolonialism and the Gospel of John, written by a group of international scholars, both established and new, from Hispanic, African, Jewish, Chinese, Korean and African-American backgrounds. It explores important topics such as the appropriation of John in settler communities of the United States and Canada, and the use of John in the colonisation of Africa, Asia, Latin America and New Zealand.The interpreters represent communities of borderland dwellers, women in colonised settings, minority ethnic groups within colonised centres and others. In an era of rapid globalisation, increased travel, rising diasporic communities and neo-colonialism, it is crucial that biblical scholars find ways to address this world with critical skill and sensitivity. This book fills this need.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
409 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84127-312-9 (9781841273129)
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08/2002
1st Edition
Sheffield Academic Press
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Persons
Musa Dube is affiliated to the University of Botswana. Jeffrey L. Staley teaches at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Seattle University, Washington.
Content
Introduction Descending from and Ascending into Heaven: A Postcolonial Analysis of Travel, Space, and Power in John Musa W. Dube and Jeffrey L. Staley; To Prepare a Place: Johannine Christianity and the Collapse of Ethnic Territory; 'Dis Place, Man': A Postcolonial Critique of the Vine (the Mountain and the Temple) in the Gospel of John; Reading for Decolonization (John 4.1-42); Contesting an Interpretation of John 5: Moving beyond Colonial Evangelism; Maori 'Jews' and a Resistant reading of John 5.10-47; Adultery or Hybridity?: Reading John 7.53-8.11 from a Postcolonial Context; Border-crossing and Its Redemptive Power in John 7.53-8.11: A Cultural Reading of Jesus and the Accused; Building toward 'Nation-ness' in the Vine: A Postcolonial Critique of John 15.1-8; The Colonized as Colonizer: Intertextual Dialogue between the Gospel of John and Canadian; Ambiguous Admittance: Consent and Descent in John's Community of 'Upward'Mobility'