Introducing ordinary African readers' hermeneutics a case study of the Agĩkũyũ encounter with the Bible /

Introducing ordinary African readers' hermeneutics a case study of the Agĩkũyũ encounter with the Bible /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kinyua, Johnson Kiriaku, 1967-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
Series:Religions and discourse, v. 54
Subjects:
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Africa.
Bible > Hermeneutics.
Bible > Versions, African.
Kikuyu (African people) > Religion.
Christianity > Kenya.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial theory
  • Bible and colonial identities: colonial constructions, representations and marginality
  • Location of culture in the colonial hermeneutics: ambivalence, mimicry, and hybridity
  • Bible translation and the discourse of colonalism: the Gĩkũyũ Bible
  • The role of common sense hermeneutics: the translated texts and the types of reading
  • Resistance as a discursive practice
  • The discourse of resistance and the "hidden transcript": the revival option
  • Towards an ordinary African readers' hermeneutics
  • General conclusion.

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