The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters

by R.S. Sugirtharajah and R.S. Sugirtharajah

Book Overview

This innovative study moves briskly but comprehensively through three phases of the Third World's encounter with the Bible - precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. It recounts the remarkable story of how an inaccessible and marginal book in the ancient churches of India, China and North Africa became an important tool in the hands of both coloniser and colonised; how it has been reclaimed in the postcolonial world; and how it is now being reread...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521005248
• ISBN13: 9780521005241
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"