Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-350) and indexes.

Pt. 1. What is postcolonial studies? Paul after empire / Stephen D. Moore -- Critical perspectives on postcolonial theory / Susan B. Abraham -- Marxism and the postcolonial study of Paul / Neil Elliott -- Pt. 2. Paul and ancient forms of colonialism. Pauline agency in postcolonial perspective : subverter of or agent for empire? / Jeremy Punt -- The politics of Paul : his supposed social conservatism and the impact of postcolonial readings / Gordon Zerbe -- Visualizing significant otherness : reimagining Paul(ine studies) through hybrid lenses / Davina C. Lopez -- Reading Romans 7 in conversation with postcolonial theory : Paul's struggle toward a Christian identity of hybridity / L. Ann Jervis -- Paul the ethnic hybrid? : postcolonial perspectives on Paul's ethnic categorizations / Christopher D. Stanley -- Redressing bodies at Corinth : racial/ethnic politics and religious difference in the context of empire / Tat-siong Benny Liew -- Imperial intersections and initial inquiries : toward a feminist, postcolonial analysis of Philippians / Joseph A. Marchal -- Beyond the heroic Paul : toward a feminist and decolonizing approach to the letters of Paul / Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre and Laura S. Nasrallah -- To what end? : revisiting the gendered space of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 from a feminist postcolonial perspective / Jennifer G. Bird -- Pt. 3. Paul and modern Western colonialism. Wrestling with the "Macedonian call" : Paul, Pauline scholarship, and nineteenth-century colonial missions / Robert Paul Seesengood -- Galatians and the "Orientalism" of justification by faith : Paul among Jews and Muslims / Brigitte Kahl -- Paul, nation, and nationalism : a Korean postcolonial perspective / Jae Won Lee -- Constructions of Paul in Filipino theology of struggle / Gordon Zerbe.