The Stolen Bible
From Tool of Imperialism to African Icon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19939879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald West (0000-0001-6897-028X, corresponding author), Gerald O West |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Stolen Bible (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004322783 |
| OpenAlex | W4231863941 |
| ISBN | 9789004322783 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
The Stolen Bible tells the story of how Southern Africans have interacted with the Bible from its arrival in Dutch imperial ships in the mid-1600s through to contemporary post-apartheid South Africa. The Stolen Bible emphasises African agency and distinguishes between African receptions of the Bible and African receptions of missionary-colonial Christianity. Through a series of detailed historical, geographical, and hermeneutical case-studies the book analyses Southern African receptions of the Bible, including the earliest African encounters with the Bible, the translation of the Bible into an African language, the appropriation of the Bible by African Independent Churches, the use of the Bible in the Black liberation struggle, and the ways in which the Bible is embodied in the lives of ordinary Africans
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Ancient history · Appropriation · Archaeology · Art · Christianity · Colonialism · Genealogy · Icon · Literature · Sociology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Christian Theology and Mission · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
The ‘Sinofication’ of Surveillance in Africa
A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826)
“If I forget you Jerusalem” (Ps. 137
Reimagining Matthean economic ethics in postcolonial South Africa
The lack of knowledge on HIV by pastors in the Thulamela Municipality
Reading from this place? A personal reckoning with whiteness and Bible scholarship
Mission in vulnerability
‘Site of struggle’
The colonial matrix of power
Revisiting Black Theology of Liberation in South Africa
The colonisation of Setswana
Moffat’s seTlhaping translation as invasion
A Critical Review of Contemporary Scholarship
Wangari Maathai’s Environmental Bible as an African Knowledge
Reading Psalm 22 in Mark 15 through a postcolonial lens
Serving the Sighs of the Working Class in South Africa with Marxist Analysis of the Bible as a Site of Struggle
The material making of language as practice of global domination and control
Currents and Cross-Currents on the Black and African Theology Landscape Today
Humans and Other Creatures
The intersectionality of religion, race and gender at the time of Covid-19 pandemic
Textual Criticism, Literary Criticism, and State Capture
Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible
Recent developments in African political theology
The Paradox of the Margins
Decolonising Translated Bibles
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |