Decolonial Theory and Biblical Unreading : : Delinking Biblical Criticism from Coloniality.

• Author: Moore, Stephen D.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (141 pages)

Decolonial theory has eclipsed postcolonial theory as a resource for resistant analysis of empire, imperialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism. This is the first book-length, biblical-scholarly introduction to decolonial theory, a demonstration of its potential for both academic and "ordinary" biblical interpretation.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Colonialities Modern and Ancient -- 1.1 "Coloniality Is Constitutive of Modernity" -- 1.2 Postcolonial Prelude -- 1.3 A Tale of Two Conferences -- 1.4 Decolonial Beginnings -- 1.5 Colonial Demons (and How to Exorcise Them) -- 1.6 The Coloniality, and Subcolonialities, of Power -- 1.7 The Coloniality of … Biblical Scholarship? -- 1.8 A Romanocoloniality of Power? -- 2 The Gospel of the Damned -- 2.1 Subalternity: A Migrant Concept -- 2.2 Subalternity: A Eurocentric Concept? -- 2.3 Of Damnation and (Self-)Deification -- 2.4 Mark's Theater of the Damned -- 2.5 Decolonial Seminars on the Road to Jerusalem -- 3 Decolonial Unlearning with "Ordinary Readers" -- 3.1 The Coloniality of Decolonial Knowledge? -- 3.2 The Why and the How of "Reading With" -- 3.3 "Reading With" as Decolonial Praxis -- 3.4 Is Decolonial Biblical Reading a "Method"? -- Works Cited -- Index of Names.