Reading Other-wise
Reading Other-wise

Author: Gerald O. West

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1589832736

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Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

The Stolen Bible
The Stolen Bible

Author: Gerald O. West

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 9004322787

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The Stolen Bible tells the story of how Southern Africans have interacted with the Bible from its arrival in Dutch imperial ships in the mid-1600s through to contemporary post-apartheid South Africa. The Stolen Bible emphasises African agency and distinguishes between African receptions of the Bible and African receptions of missionary-colonial Christianity. Through a series of detailed historical, geographical, and hermeneutical case-studies the book analyses Southern African receptions of the Bible, including the earliest African encounters with the Bible, the translation of the Bible into an African language, the appropriation of the Bible by African Independent Churches, the use of the Bible in the Black liberation struggle, and the ways in which the Bible is embodied in the lives of ordinary Africans.

Applied Drama/Theatre as Social Intervention in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts
Applied Drama/Theatre as Social Intervention in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts

Author: Hazel Barnes

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-06-26

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1443862363

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This book explores the use of drama or theatre texts about, as approaches to, or methodologies for, interventions in conflict and post-conflict contexts. It maps the role of drama/theatre in the centre and in the aftermath of overt and direct conflict, traces how the relationship between drama/theatre and conflict is shaping the socio-cultural, political, and aesthetic landscapes of these contexts, and engages with drama/theatre as methodologies to address or forge new relationships around conflict. As such, it deals with the transformative abilities of drama/theatre in contexts where conflict or violence is overt or covert in its effects, expressions and modes of social control in a range of geographical constituencies. It includes chapters predominantly from South Africa, but also from rural Nigeria and New Zealand, reflecting work on conflict in prisons, tertiary and secondary education, cities, villages and families. It also contains two new original play scripts, both resulting in acclaimed performances: Hush, on family violence in New Zealand, and The Line, on xenophobia in South Africa.