The Not so Silent Citizen: Hearing Embodied Theology in the Context of HIV and AIDS in South Africa

West, Gerald

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“…However, for others of us who hold to weak notions of ideological hegemony, the apparent silence of the poor and marginalised is not the silence of a consent to hegemony, but the silence of an embodied and lived but yet to be articulated "local" ideology (Scott 1990, West 2009). …”

Section: Collaborative Work and Interpretationmentioning

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Reading the Bible with the marginalised: The value/s of contextual Bible reading

West

2016

STJ

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Th ere is a long history of collaboration between "popular" or "contextual" forms of biblical interpretation between Brazil and South Africa, going back into the early 1980s. Th ough there are signifi cant diff erences between these forms of Bible "reading", there are values and processes that cohere across these contexts, providing an integrity to such forms of Bible reading. Th is article refl ects on the values and processes that may be discerned across the Brazilian and South African interpretive practices aft er more than thirty years of conversation across these contexts.

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Reading the Bible with the marginalised: The value/s of contextual Bible reading

West

2016

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“…On the other hand, BPC could be shaped as a tool in church and society which may allow marginalized groups of people to use their collective and individual voices as agents amidst forces seeking to silence or denigrate them (Hymes 1996, 70; Bauman 2013, 187). It may offer a tool used in concert with other tools for some communities and their performers to intuitively appropriate the Scriptures according to their own incipient embodied theologies (West 2009, 25, 30–31). Communities are adept at doing this if they recognize their own authority and can secure a safe space to interpret based on their own convictions.…”

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Ideology and Bible Translation: Can Biblical Performance Criticism Help?

Esala

2015

The Bible Translator

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Biblical performance criticism (BPC) is a provincial practice with particular North American and European historical indices. When entering into a new context, this methodological genealogy needs to be recognized, because within those indices overt and covert interests are served. In order for BPC to be contextualized to serve local interests, it must recognize practices on the ground and how those practices have already been shaped or reshaped to serve local interests. I will highlight three practices in the Bik m context of Ghana to see how their ideological pathways have been (re)shaped to serve local interests: written Bible translation, oral tradition, and preaching. I will discuss two examples where written Bible translation has partially imitated the pathways of oral tradition and sermonic practice to better serve local interests. Then I will discuss the material dimensions of written Bibles and oral tradition as instructive for the way BPC materially contextualizes. Finally, I will suggest that if contextual Bible study as developed in South Africa could be adapted for the Bik m context, it could be helpful to Bible interpreters, translators, and performers as they seek to embed their Bible practices in locally controlled ways that foster local liberation.

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“…These are deployed in different combinations depending on the particular community and its project. In many cases, local resources are used in combination with the 'critical' textual resources of biblical scholars (West 2008b (Riches et al 2010:41). Most 'ordinary' biblical interpretation is quick, with an almost immediate appropriation of aspects of the biblical text.…”

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“…An option is made for the poor, but the categories and contribution of their experience are subordinated to or translated into the terms of the intellectually trained in the social sciences. Significantly, both CEBI and Ujamaa, organisations organically related to local communities of the marginalised, have moved away from strong conceptions of 'a culture of silence' (Dreher 2004;Schinelo 2009;West 1991West , 2009b. The poor have taught us.…”

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“…There seems to be a growing recognition in liberation hermeneutics that organised ordinary readers bring an array of 'critical' reading resources to biblical interpretation (Tshehla 2002;West 2002), particularly when biblical interpretation takes place within a process such as Contextual Bible Study (West 2008b (De Wit 2012:78, 72). It has always struck me as strange that a method that advocates for the epistemological privilege of the poor -liberation hermeneutics -has been so reluctant to acknowledge the contribution of the poor to the process of understanding the biblical text, notwithstanding the significance of Ernesto Cardenal's The Gospel in Solentiname (Cardenal 1976).…”

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Locating ‘Contextual Bible Study’ within biblical liberation hermeneutics and intercultural biblical hermeneutics

West

2014

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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This article uses the occasion of the 70th anniversary of HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies to reflect on a particular form of liberation hermeneutics that emerged in the 1980s in South Africa. ‘Contextual Bible Study’ is briefly defined, but its precise contours are explored by locating this form of liberation hermeneutics within liberation hermeneutics more generally and then intercultural biblical hermeneutics more specifically. The article sets up a dialogue amongst these practices, examining both their family resemblances and their distinctive features.

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The Not so Silent Citizen: Hearing Embodied Theology in the Context of HIV and AIDS in South Africa

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Reading the Bible with the marginalised: The value/s of contextual Bible reading

Reading the Bible with the marginalised: The value/s of contextual Bible reading

Ideology and Bible Translation: Can Biblical Performance Criticism Help?

Locating ‘Contextual Bible Study’ within biblical liberation hermeneutics and intercultural biblical hermeneutics

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