Postcolonial Interventions: Essays in Honor of R.S. Sugirtharajah - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190605570X ISBN 13: 9781906055707

Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009

Synopsis

This collection of essays, with contributions by many long-term colleagues and collaborators of R. S. Sugirtharajah, Professor of Biblical Hermeneutics in the University of Birmingham, is meant to review, evaluate, celebrate, and honour his many scholarly contributions. The title of the collection signifies that the volume focusses not only on how we read socio-political interventions, but also on how reading can itself be a form of intervention. This focus on reading and intervention is in many ways most fitting, as Professor Sugirtharajah's biblical and theological hermeneutics have indeed been a significant force of intervention. His work has confronted and challenged many to see beyond a parochial mainstream, to perceive imperial and colonial dynamics in the Bible and in biblical studies, and to remain open to the transformative possibilities of reading from new sites as well as with new sights.

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About the Author

Tat-siong Benny Liew is associate professor of New Testament at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190605570X
• ISBN 13: 9781906055707
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Liew Tat-siong Benny