Faith and freedom in Galatia and Senegal : the Apostle Paul, colonists and sending gods
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Faith and freedom in Galatia and Senegal : the Apostle Paul, colonists and sending gods
（Biblical interpretation series, v. 97）
Brill, 2009
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Brite Divinity School, 2007
Bibliography: p. [139]-164
Includes indexes
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Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal reads Galatians 2:11-15 and 3:26-29 through the lens of the 19th-20th century experiences of French colonialism by the Diola people in Senegal, West Africa, and portrays the Apostle Paul as a "'sociopostcolonial hermeneut who acted on his self-understanding as God's messenger to create, through faith in the cross of Christ, free communities' -- a self-definition that is critical of ancient Graeco-Roman and modern colonial lore that justify colonization as a divine mandate." Aliou C. Niang ingeniously compares the colonial objectification of his own people by French colonists to the Graeco-Roman colonial objectifications of the ancient Celts/Gauls/Galatians, and Paul's role in bringing about a different portrayal.
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