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

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Autore principale: Kinyua, Johnson Kiriaku, 1967-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Oxford [England] ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
Serie:Religions and discourse, v. 54
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Sommario:
  • 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.