TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kinyua,Johnson Kiriaku
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Introducing ordinary African readers' hermeneutics: a case study of the Agĩkũyũ encounter with the Bible 
AV  - BS511.3 .K575 2011eb
U1  - 220.60967 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford [England], New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Bible
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Africa
KW  - Hermeneutics
KW  - Versions, African
KW  - Kikuyu (African people)
KW  - Religion
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial theory -- Bible and colonial identities: colonial constructions, representations and marginality -- Location of culture in the colonial hermeneutics: ambivalence, mimicry, and hybridity -- Bible translation and the discourse of colonalism: the Gĩkũyũ Bible -- The role of common sense hermeneutics: the translated texts and the types of reading -- Resistance as a discursive practice -- The discourse of resistance and the "hidden transcript": the revival option -- Towards an ordinary African readers' hermeneutics -- General conclusion; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10600726
ER  -