Introducing ordinary African readers' hermeneutics a case study of the Agĩkũyũ encounter with the Bible / by Kinyua, Johnson Kiriaku, 1967-

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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