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&...

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.