Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism: Contesting the Interpretations
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R.S. Sugirtharajah takes up the theory of postcolonialism as a way of looking at biblical interpretative practices in the Asian context. Postcolonialism is a discourse of resistance that tries to "write back" and work against colonial assumptions and ideologies. Long established in cultural studies, this is the first work to apply postcolonial theory to biblical interpretation. Sugirtharajah provides examples of how Asian Christians have used both indigenous and western critical methods to liberate the texts, and highlights the liberating potential of other sacred texts of Asia to meet the pressing problems of the continent.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Rethinking an Interpretative AgendaPt. IDisciplining Colonial Projects: Texts, Commentaries, and Translations1From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Hermeneutics Moving Eastward and Onward32The Indian Textual Mutiny of 1820: The Brahmin, the Baptist, and Their Contested Interpretations of the Bible293Imperial Critical Commentaries: Christian Discourse and Commentarial Writings in Colonial India544Textual Cleansing: From a Colonial to a Postcolonial Version86Pt. IIOrientalism and Biblical Scholarship5Orientalism, Ethnonationalism, and Transnationalism: Shifting Identities and Biblical Interpretation1016Jesus in Saffron Robes? The "Other" Jesus Whom Recent Biographers Forget1127Cultures, Texts, Margins: A Hermeneutical Odyssey123Index143
