Before continuing with Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations, let’s dip into a different book, Subverting Global Myths (2009), and Vinoth Ramachandra’s chapter on postcolonialism. Ramachandra begins by making a case for decentred world history.* To characterise globalisation (good or bad) as a recent product of Western capitalism is to engage in top-down, […]
I know this author a little so I’ve been especially looking forward to this one: Robert Heaney’s chapter in Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations is ‘Prospects and problems for evangelical postcolonialisms’. He’s asking: in what sense might evangelical and postcolonial go together? It’s a pretty academic chapter covering a lot of ground, but this is a key question. Heaney spends time defining both […]
Steve Hu and Gene Green contributed chapters to the introductory section of Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations, the book I’m posting on each Friday. Steve Hu graduated from an evangelical seminary. Beginning to minister in a Chinese American megachurch, he found himself ill-equipped for the cross-cultural questions. People were grappling with their cultural identity, often […]
This is the first in an ongoing series in which I’ll tease out some connections between postcolonial theology and Tanzanian university ministry. Part of the occasion for this is a new book, Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations (check Booko if you’d like to get the paperback in Australia). We’ll delve into that […]
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