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Sharon Betcher
Paradise Highway: Of Global Cities and Postcolonial Reading Practices, epilogue to Calling of the Nations: Biblical Hermeneutics, Colonial & Postcolonial PreOccupations., eds. Mark Vessey, Sharon Betcher, Harry Maier, and Robert Daum . Toronto: University of Toronto 2010
Considers how, in Vancouver, the sacred texts of different traditions must and can be read through postcolonial hermeneutics, given the ways in which religio-ethnic communities now reside one beside each other along Paradise Highway.
Sharon Betcher
Calling of the Nations: Biblical Hermeneutics, Colonial & Postcolonial PreOccupations.., eds. Mark Vessey, Sharon Betcher, Harry Maier, and Robert Daum. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2051
Current notions of nationhood, communal identity, territorial entitlement, and collective destiny are deeply rooted in historic interpretations of the Bible. Interweaving elements of history, theology, literary criticism, and cultural theory, the essays in this volume discuss the ways in which biblical understandings have shaped Western – and particularly European and North American – assumptions about the nature and meaning of the nation.