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African Biblical Studies - Unmasking Embedded Racism and Colonialism in Biblical Studies (Hardcover)
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African Biblical Studies - Unmasking Embedded Racism and Colonialism in Biblical Studies (Hardcover)
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Andrew M. Mbuvi makes the case for African biblical studies as a
vibrant and important emerging distinct discipline, while also
using its postcolonial optic to critique biblical studies for its
continued underlying racially and imperialistically motivated
tendencies. Mbuvi argues that the emergence of biblical studies as
a discipline in the West coincides with, and benefits from, the
establishment of the colonial project that included African
colonization. At the heart of the colonial project was the Bible,
not only as ferried by missionaries, who often espoused racialized
views, to convert "heathens in the distant lands," but as the text
used in the racialized justification of the colonial violence.
Interpretive approaches established within these racist and
colonialist matrices continue to dominate the discipline,
perpetuating racialized interpretive methodology and frameworks. On
these grounds, Mbuvi makes the case that the continued
marginalization of non-western approaches is a reflection of the
continuing colonialist structure and presuppositions in the
discipline of biblical studies. African Biblical Studies not only
exposes and critiques these persistent oppressive and subjugating
tendencies but showcases how African postcolonial methodologies and
studies, that prioritize readings from the perspective of the
marginalized and oppressed, offer an alternative framework for the
discipline. These readings, while destabilizing and undermining the
predominantly white Euro-American approaches and their ingrained
prejudices, and problematizing the biblical text itself, posit the
need for biblical interpretation that is anti-colonial and
anti-racist.
General
Imprint: |
T. & T. Clark
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2022 |
Authors: |
Andrew M. Mbuvi
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
248 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-567-70771-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-567-70771-7 |
Barcode: |
9780567707710 |
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