John and Postcolonialism
Travel, Space and Power
Published on 1. August 2002
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-84127-323-5 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays connects postcolonialism and the Gospel of John, with writing by international scholars, both established and new voices from Hispanic, African, Jewish, Chinese, Korean and African-American backgrounds. The book explores topics such as the appropriation of John's Gospel in settler communities of the United States and Canada, and the use of John in the colonization of Africa, Asia, Latin America and New Zealand. The interpreters represent communities of borderland dwellers, women in colonized settings, minority ethnic groups within colonized centres and others. In an era of rapid globalization, 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.
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Series
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
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84127-323-5 (9781841273235)
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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
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".