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

This book explores the intersections between the Bible and activism, highlighting intersectional readings, historical uses, and activist approaches to teaching the Bible. Contributors from diverse regions address global political trends, such as gender politics, racial injustices, and political resistance. It aims to harness the intellectual energies of minoritized Biblical scholars to reflect on the Bible as a tool for liberating social and political change.

Format: Hardback
Length: 194 pages
Publication date: 03 February 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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, 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, and offering activist approaches to teaching the Bible. Each chapter in this volume provides a critical and substantive response from the discipline of Biblical Studies to global political trends. International in scope, with contributors from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, South Africa, and the United States, they address themes such as gender politics, racial injustices, violence toward women, political resistance, and activist hermeneutics and pedagogies. Together, they harness the intellectual energies of minoritized Biblical scholars in a nonessentialist manner to reflect on the Bible as a tool for liberating social and political change. Reflecting on the activist potential of the Bible, this book will be of keen interest to scholars in Biblical Studies, Political Theology, and Religious Studies.

Weight: 540g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367544966