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Activist Hermeneutics of Liberation and the Bible: A Global Intersectional Perspective book cover

1st Edition

Activist Hermeneutics of Liberation and the Bible A Global Intersectional Perspective

Edited By Jin Young Choi, Gregory L. Cuéllar Copyright 2023
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge
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Inspired by the current political moment around the globe in which uprisings, protests, revolutions, and movements are on the rise, this book examines the intersections between the Bible and activism. It does this by showcasing intersectional readings of the Bible as an activist act and a tool for activism; historicizing the uses of the Bible within activist/freedom movements around the globe;... Read more

Activist Hermeneutics of Liberation and the Bible

Jin Young Choi and Gregory L. Cuéllar

Part I: The Bible and Activist Movements

1 My Light is Darkness: Reading (the Bible) with Baldwin for #BLM

Adam F. Braun

2 The Colonies Strike Back: How Latin-American Liberation Theology Saved Christianity in Post-Dictatorial Spain

Luis Menéndez-Antuña

3 Intersectionality in Biblical Studies: A Tool Toward Social Justice Activism?

Mónica Isabel Rey

4 Social Movements in Hong Kong and the Bible
Sonia Kwok Wong

Part II: Empowering Activists with the Bible

5 Qohelet and Jaiba Politics: Ecclesiastes and Activist Resistance from a Puerto Rican Perspective

Lydia Hernández-Marcial

6 Name of the Nameless: An Intercultural Reading of the Significance of Naming the Children in Hosea 1:2–9

Royce M. Victor

Part III Activist Teachers of the Bible

7 “I Am No Longer a Professor”: A Pedagogy of Living Word Becoming Flesh

Melanie A. Duguid-May

8 Stuff the Bible: Psalm 137

Jione Havea

9 #MeToo #BibleToo: Teaching Ethics of Sex with the Bible for Justice

Keun-joo Christine Pae

Epilogue: The Embodied Cost of Knowledge Activism

Sarojini Nadar

Biography

Jin Young Choi is a professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, USA.

Gregory L. Cuéllar is an associate professor of Old Testament at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, USA.

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