How Long to Read African Biblical Studies

How Long Does it Take to Read African Biblical Studies?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 17 minutes to read African Biblical Studies by Andrew M. Mbuvi

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Andrew M. Mbuvi makes the case for African biblical studies as a vibrant and important emerging distinct discipline, while also using its postcolonial optic to critique biblical studies for its continued underlying racially and imperialistically motivated tendencies. Mbuvi argues that the emergence of biblical studies as a discipline in the West coincides with, and benefits from, the establishment of the colonial project that included African colonization. At the heart of the colonial project was the Bible, not only as ferried by missionaries, who often espoused racialized views, to convert “heathens in the distant lands,” but as the text used in the racialized justification of the colonial violence. Interpretive approaches established within these racist and colonialist matrices continue to dominate the discipline, perpetuating racialized interpretive methodology and frameworks. On these grounds, Mbuvi makes the case that the continued marginalization of non-western approaches is a reflection of the continuing colonialist structure and presuppositions in the discipline of biblical studies. African Biblical Studies not only exposes and critiques these persistent oppressive and subjugating tendencies but showcases how African postcolonial methodologies and studies, that prioritize readings from the perspective of the marginalized and oppressed, offer an alternative framework for the discipline. These readings, while destabilizing and undermining the predominantly white Euro-American approaches and their ingrained prejudices, and problematizing the biblical text itself, posit the need for biblical interpretation that is anti-colonial and anti-racist.

How long is African Biblical Studies?

African Biblical Studies by Andrew M. Mbuvi is 249 pages long, and a total of 64,491 words.

This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read African Biblical Studies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 52 minutes to read African Biblical Studies aloud.

What Reading Level is African Biblical Studies?

African Biblical Studies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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