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PUNT, J.. Decolonising Bibles? Image, imagination, and imagin(in)g in the post-colonial academy. Acta theol. [online]. 2023, vol.43, suppl.36, pp.82-107. ISSN 2309-9089.  https://doi.org/10.38140/at.vi.6931.

The complicity of the Bible in the colonial endeavour is no longer seriously disputed. However, efforts to decolonise the Bible, biblical studies, and their roles in colonising theology, that start with accounting for interpreters' social locations, remain few and limited in scope. Ensconced in the image of ideologically secure and contented intellectual space, epistemological and hermeneutical approaches, which explicitly involve the social location of interpreters and academic discourses, are still viewed with concern, if not suspicion. Antipathy towards cultural studies approaches such as postcolonial¹ theory, on the one hand, is born from ideological preoccupation, intellectual comfort, and turf-protection. On the other hand, it deprives the biblical studies guild (and associated studies in theology and religion) from a broader spectrum of resources and reimagined engagements with biblical texts and their colonialist-infused legacies.

Palavras-chave : Bible; Post-colonial; Social imaginary; Decolonial.

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