Faith and freedom in Galatia and Senegal : the Apostle Paul, colonists and sending gods / / by Aliou Cissé Niang.

Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal reads Galatians 2:11-15 and 3:26-29 through the lens of the 19th-20th century experiences of French colonialism by the Diola people in Senegal, West Africa, and portrays the Apostle Paul as a \''sociopostcolonial hermeneut who acted on his self-unde...

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Superior document:Biblical interpretation series, v. 97
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Biblical interpretation series ; v. 97.
Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
Notes:Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Brite Divinity School, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A sociopostcolonial hermeneutics
  • Identity and the socioreligious context of pre-Christian and Christian Galatians
  • Senegalese Diola in context
  • Modes of community and identity formation : an exegesis of Galatians 2:11-14 and 3:26-29
  • A postcolonial reading of Paul's Epistle to the churches of Galatia : a conclusion.