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050 0 0 _aBS2665.52
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082 _aAFR 227.106 Kam 2013
100 1 _aKamudzandu, Israel,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAbraham our father :
_bPaul and the ancestors in postcolonial Africa /
_cIsrael Kamudzandu.
264 1 _aMinneapolis, Minnesota :
_bFortress Press,
_c[2013]
300 _axiv, 120 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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490 1 _aPaul in critical contexts
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 105-113) and indexes.
505 0 _aEmpire, gospel and culture -- Zimbabwe's religious cultural configurations -- Postcolonial Shona Christianity -- Aeneas, a constructed ancestor -- Aeneas and Abraham paradigms -- Conclusions and implications.
520 8 _a"'Father Abraham had many sons . . .' So goes the chorus that the Shona people learned from European missionaries as part of the broader experience of colonization that they share with other African peoples. Urged to abandon their ancestors and embrace Christianity, the Shona instead engaged in a complex and ambiguous negotiation of ancestral myths, culture, and power. Israel Kamudzandu explores this legacy, showing 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"--Publisher description.
600 0 0 _aAbraham
_c(Biblical patriarch)
630 0 0 _aBible.
_pRomans, IV
_xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
650 0 _aChristianity
_zZimbabwe.
830 0 _aPaul in critical contexts.
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