Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal: The Apostle Paul, Colonists and Sending Gods (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004175228)

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.

Author: Aliou Cissé Niang
ISBN-10: 9004175229
ISBN-13: 9789004175228
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2009
Pages: 182
Format: Hardcover

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 26