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10 - Liberationist Interpretation

from Part II - Frameworks/Stances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2022

By
Gerald O. West
Edited by
Ian Boxall  and
Bradley C. Gregory
Ian Boxall
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Bradley C. Gregory
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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Summary

This chapter analyses the shape of liberation interpretation, emphasizing an alignment between the factors that constitute a liberationist hermeneutic of contemporary reception and the factors that constitute a liberationist hermeneutic of biblical text production.

Keywords

liberationpraxisSee-Judge-Actmethod
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The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation , pp. 191 - 209
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Bailey, Randall C., ed. Yet with a Steady Beat: Contemporary U.S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation. SemeiaSt 42. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2003.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dube, Musa W., ed. Other Ways of Reading: African Women and the Bible. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Fabella, Virginia, and Torres, Sergio, eds. Irruption of the Third World: Challenge to Theology: Papers from the Fifth International Conference of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, August 17–29, 1981, New Delhi, India. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1983.Google Scholar
Gottwald, Norman K., and Horsley, Richard A., eds. The Bible and Liberation: Political and Social Hermeneutics. Rev. ed. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1983.Google Scholar
Rowland, Christopher, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Segovia, Fernando F., and Tolbert, Mary Ann, eds. Reading from This Place: Social Location and Biblical Interpretation in Global Perspective. Vol. 2. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Sugirtharajah, Rasiah S. Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World, 25th Anniversary Edition. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2016.Google Scholar
Vaage, Leif E., ed. Subversive Scriptures: Revolutionary Readings of the Christian Bible in Latin America. Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1997.Google Scholar

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