Introducing ordinary African readers' hermeneutics a case study of the Agδikδuyδu encounter with the Bible /

Main Author: Kinyua, Johnson Kiriaku, 1967-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10600726
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300 |a xiv, 371 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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 Gδikδuyδu 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. 
650 0 |a Kikuyu (African people)  |x Religion. 
650 0 |a Christianity  |z Kenya. 
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