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Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theologies

Part of the Postcolonialism and Religions Book Series

Editors: Brett, Mark G.; Havea, Jione

DOI: 10.1057/9781137475473

ISBN: 978-1-349-50181-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 30, 2015

1 - 10 of 16 Chapters

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Threshold Theology

Ashcroft, Bill

Pages: 3 –20

[Despite the recent proliferation of “postcolonial theology,” theology itself has had little traction in the broader field of postcolonial studies for a number of reasons: the relationship between colonialism and Christian mission stereotyped Christianity as an agent of the civilizing mission of...
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Weaving Oppression and Liberation: Postcolonial Theology as Theology of Struggle

Cruz, Gemma Tulud

Pages: 21 –39

[Colonization changed the lives of entire peoples, communities, and continents in unprecedented ways. Ever since Vasco de Gama successfully found a route to the East and landed in Kerala, India, in 1498, for example, Asia has been drawn into the colonial orbit with Europe as its center....
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Va’atapalagi: De-heavening Trinitarian Theology in the Islands

Vaai, Upolu Lumā

Pages: 41 –53

[Trinitarian theology, in the islands, was and still is treated as “Heavenly,” unconnected to island Christian spirituality. Many islanders,1 including local theologians, have not only puzzled but also rejected the whole idea of the Trinity because it is abstract. When something is abstractive,...
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Let the River Flow ∼∼ A Postcolonial Ecotheology and the Grand Canal Project in Korea

Oh, Jea Sophia

Pages: 55 –64

[As Edward W. Said states, “We live in one global environment with a huge number of ecological, economic, social, and political pressures tearing at its only dimly perceived, basically uninterpreted and incomprehended fabric.”1 Seeing ecological degradation and imperialism against nonhuman nature...
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The Hebrew Bible and Postcolonial Samoan Hermeneutics

Neemia, Makesi

Pages: 67 –79

[Christianity and the Bible have had a significant impact upon the lives of Samoans. In most matters, Samoans look to the Bible for guidance. This chapter highlights an aspect in which the Hebrew Bible may assist Samoans to embrace both the biblical message and their own traditions.]
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The Empire of God, the Postcolonial Jesus, and Postapocalyptic Mark

Dyer, Keith

Pages: 81 –97

[Mark’s story of Jesus reached written form as the Roman Empire was brutally reasserting its hegemony over the land of Judea. Whether we locate Mark’s achievement within the battle zones of the Levant or in Rome itself, we expect his account of Jesus to bear the scars of the tumultuous times in...
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Encountering State Ideology: Reading the Bible from an Indonesian Postcolonial Perspective

Setyawan, Yusak B.

Pages: 99 –112

[The Bible is a foreign book to the people of Indonesia. It arrived into Indonesia when the Europeans spread Christianity, together with colonization. Thus, the Bible, Christian mission, and colonization are intertwined.]
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Natives, reading, scriptures: In transit, in Pasifika

Havea, Jione

Pages: 113 –126

[Iopen with the Tongan ritual of fakatapu (in Pasifika settings, when one speaks in public, one opens by paying respect to the place and the people, as a way of asking for permission so one may address the audience), paying my respects to land, to ancient and living cultures, and to peoples,...
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John Green, Manager of Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, but also a ngamadjidj? New insights into His Work with Victorian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century

Clark, Ian D.; Cahir, Fred

Pages: 129 –144

[As a result of recommendations from the New South Wales Legislative Council Select Committee appointed in June 1849 to assess the success or failure of the Aboriginal Protectorate system in Port Phillip, the protectorate was dismantled in late 1849. The abolition of the Protectorate heralded a...
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Men, Masculinity, and Missionaries: Exploring the Cultural, Health, and Spiritual Impact of the Australian Missionary enterprise on Aboriginal men

McCoy, Brian F.

Pages: 145 –159

[The Native Canadian author Joseph Boyden1 describes in his novel Through Black Spruce that moment when an Aboriginal family takes their young boy to the local residential school for the first time.2 He writes from the perspective of the child, a very young Cree boy:In September of my fifth year,...

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