Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Rereading the Bible in the Wake of Colonisation

Av Emily Colgan, Brian Fiu Kolia, Michael Mawson

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This book explores the complex relationships between the Bible, colonisation, and ecology in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Pasifika, and parts of Asia.Bringing together theologians, biblical scholars, and activists, the volume critically engages with the historical and ongoing uses of biblical texts in colonisation and the reshaping of environmental contexts. The book also showcases some ways in which scholars have recently been developing alternative hermeneutical approaches and ways of contesting these texts. Ecological hermeneutics has, at times, unhelpfully created a dichotomy between human and other-than-human beings, separating humanity from environmental contexts. Central to the contributions in this book is an intentional re-casting of human beings within the so-called ecological realm. By focusing on coloniality and the conquest of Indigenous communities, this volume broadens understandings of ‘ecology’ and aims to attend to how the colonisation of human beings goes hand-in-hand with ecological conquest and domination.Rereading the Bible in the Wake of Colonisation is of great use for students and scholars interested in decolonising ecological histories and theologies, as well as those studying the Bible and ecology more broadly.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-16
Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt: 453 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Bible and Ecology
Antal sidor: 242
Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781041022305

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Emily Colgan is from Aotearoa New Zealand. She lives in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), under the shadow of Ōhinerua maunga (mountain) where Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei are mana whenua (the tribal authority). She is acting principal and Ranston Lecturer in Biblical Studies (Hebrew Bible) at Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of Jeremiah: An Earth Bible Commentary (forthcoming) and co-editor of the multi-volume work, Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion (2018).Brian Kolia is a lecturer in Old Testament studies at Malua Theological College and an ordained minister of the Congregational Christian Church, Samoa. He is an Australian-born Samoan whose roots go back to the villages of Sili Savaii and Satapuala. He holds a PhD from the University of Divinity and is author of Carrying Qoheleth’s Maota (House): An Australian-Samoan Diasporic Reading (2024).Michael Mawson is a Pākehā (white) theologian who lives in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the Maclaurin Goodfellow Associate Professor of Theological and Religious Studies at Waipapa Taumata Rau/ the University of Auckland, and also a research fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. His recent books include Standing Under the Cross: Essays on Bonhoeffer’s Theology (2023) and Unsettling Theologies: Memory, Identity and Place, co-edited with Brian Kolia (2024).

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"This book does not flinch from the brutalities of colonization or the roles and complicities of Christianization and environmental destruction. As such, it is a book of tragedies, as the headings to its three constituent parts make clear: conquered lands, subdued languages, colonized bodies. It is also a book that bristles with outrage and resistance; it challenges epistemicide in profound and dynamic ways – in poetry, song, talanoa, inter-reading, textual analysis, and more. The upshot is of a loud clarion call – from Nagaland, Tonga, Australia, Hong Kong, Aotearoa… – that refuses to let colonizers have the only or the last word. Bravo." - Johanna Stiebert, Professor of Hebrew Bible, University of Leeds."This outstanding collection is a courageous and timely intervention in biblical interpretation and theology in contexts shaped by colonisation. Bringing together an exceptional group of Indigenous and allied scholars, it offers fresh, critical, and contextually grounded readings of Scripture that expose the enduring legacies of empire while recovering the voices, wisdom, and agency of Indigenous peoples. The volume moves beyond critique to articulate imaginative and life-giving hermeneutical possibilities rooted in land, language, body, and community." - Nāsili Vaka'uta, Director of the Centre for Advocacy, Research & Empowerment, Aotearoa New Zealand."This rich collection of essays by Settler-descended and Indigenous scholars charts the next phase for rereading the Bible in the aftermath of colonisation. The essays explore complex entanglements of Genesis and other texts with colonisation, while also drawing deeply on local traditions to open new reading possibilities of resilience and resistance. A model of collaborative, grounded, and politically conscious biblical scholarship." - David Carr, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Union Theological Seminary."In this expansively researched and expertly crafted volume, a collective of wonderfully diverse and remarkably well-qualified scholars reimagine a more convivial relationship between land, waters, humans, nature, and God. While critiquing the adverse effects of colonial incursions into parts of Oceania and Asia, they also constructively focus on more organic, contextual, and liberative visions for living in the world. A must-read for theological faculty and students, and a must-have for all libraries in Oceania and those across the globe engaged with World Christianity." - Sathianathan Clarke, Emeritus Professor, Wesley Theological Seminary.

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