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Tables of Contents for The Bible and the Third World
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction
1
12
PART I PRECOLONIAL RECEPTION
Before the empire: the Bible as a marginal and a minority text
13
32
India: liturgical and iconic usage
15
7
China: the surrogate Bible--monuments and manuscripts
22
8
Africa: Latin Bible and local controversies
30
6
Concluding reflections
36
9
PART II COLONIAL EMBRACE
White men bearing gifts: diffusion of the Bible and scriptural imperialism
45
29
Venerable versions and paucity of Bibles
45
7
Cheap Bibles and scriptural imperialism
52
9
Marks of colonial hermeneutics
61
13
Reading back: resistance as a discursive practice
74
36
An emancipator as emancipator of texts: Olaudah Equiano and his Textual allusions
75
12
Confluence of histories: William Apess and Textual reclamations
87
3
Textual conversations: K. N. Banerjea and his Vedas
90
7
Textual management: Pandita Ramabai and her Bible
97
8
African emancipatory movements and their Bibles
105
3
Concluding reflections
108
2
The colonialist as a contentious reader: Colenso and his hermeneutics
110
30
Out of the mouths of the heathen
113
3
Cleansing the contradictions
116
9
Exegetical contestation
125
7
The sacred text improved and restored
132
4
Situating Colenso in the colonial discourse
136
4
Textual pedlars: distributing salvation--colporteurs and their portable Bibles
140
35
Bartering the Word of God
144
2
Errant readers and indecent cultures: effects of the Society's Bible
146
3
The colporteur's book
149
3
Changed by the text
152
6
Omens out of the Book: non-readerly use and non-textual attitudes
158
4
Colporteurs and their collusion
162
3
Construction of racial images
165
3
Concluding reflections
168
7
PART III POSTCOLONIAL RECLAMATIONS
Desperately seeking the indigene: nativism and vernacular hermeneutics
175
28
Describing vernacular hermeneutics
177
5
Vernacularization and biblical interpretation
182
8
The vernacular in metropolitan context
190
2
Some affirming and constructive thoughts
192
11
Engaging liberation: texts as a vehicle of emancipation
203
41
Classical liberation hermeneutics
206
9
Radical reading within the margins: peoples' appropriation of the Bible
215
11
Identity-specific readings
226
13
Concluding remarks
239
5
Postcolonializing biblical interpretation
244
32
Streams of postcoloniality
248
2
Postcolonial criticism and biblical studies
250
9
Liberation hermeneutics and postcolonial criticism: shall the twain meet?
259
6
Some deck-clearing exercises
265
6
Consequences, concerns and cautions
271
5
Afterword
276
7
Select bibliography
283
15
Index of biblical references
298
2
Index of names and subjects
300