Abraham our father
Kamudzandu, Israel,
Abraham our father Paul and the ancestors in postcolonial Africa / [electronic resource] : Israel Kamudzandu. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 120 pages).) - Paul in critical contexts .
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-113) and indexes.
Empire, gospel and culture -- Zimbabwe's religious cultural configurations -- Postcolonial Shona Christianity -- Aeneas, a constructed ancestor -- Aeneas and Abraham paradigms -- Conclusions and implications,
Israel Kamudzandu explores the legacy of how the Shona found in the figure of Abraham himself a potent resource for cultural resistance, and makes intriguing comparisons with the ways the apostle Paul used the same figure in his interaction with the ancestry of Aeneas in imperial myths of the destiny of the Roman people. The result is a groundbreaking study that combines the best tradition-historical insights with postcolonial-critical acumen. Kamudzandu offers at last a model of multi-cultural Christianity forged in the experience of postcolonial Zimbabwe.
9781451426298 1451426291
Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
Bible.--Romans IV--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Christianity--Zimbabwe.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BS2665.52 / .K363 2013
227.106
Abraham our father Paul and the ancestors in postcolonial Africa / [electronic resource] : Israel Kamudzandu. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 120 pages).) - Paul in critical contexts .
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-113) and indexes.
Empire, gospel and culture -- Zimbabwe's religious cultural configurations -- Postcolonial Shona Christianity -- Aeneas, a constructed ancestor -- Aeneas and Abraham paradigms -- Conclusions and implications,
Israel Kamudzandu explores the legacy of how the Shona found in the figure of Abraham himself a potent resource for cultural resistance, and makes intriguing comparisons with the ways the apostle Paul used the same figure in his interaction with the ancestry of Aeneas in imperial myths of the destiny of the Roman people. The result is a groundbreaking study that combines the best tradition-historical insights with postcolonial-critical acumen. Kamudzandu offers at last a model of multi-cultural Christianity forged in the experience of postcolonial Zimbabwe.
9781451426298 1451426291
Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
Bible.--Romans IV--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Christianity--Zimbabwe.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BS2665.52 / .K363 2013
227.106