A convocation house (Prrngawan) biblical interpretation and TYCM tribal postcolonial concerns reading Genesis 2:4b~25 with TYCM ordinary tribal readers.
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2012
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Abstract
The thesis is concerned about the postcolonial context of the minority tribal people,
the Taiwan Yuen-Chu-Min (台灣原住民, TYCM), in Taiwan. The argument of this
thesis includes two parts: Part one provides the background to develop the foundation
for the contextualization of the TYCM tribal people’s colonized experience and
postcolonial discourse in light of their contextual concerns－tribal mother tongue,
tribal texts, and ordinary tribal people; Part two draws connections between these
TYCM tribal people’s postcolonial concerns and biblical interpretation, which is
called “TYCM Tribal Biblical Interpretation”, and practices reading Gen 2:4b-25 with
the subaltern people, TYCM ordinary tribal people, through the Five Step Reading
Process in a group collaborative effort with 14 tribal reading groups.
The project of TYCM Tribal Biblical Interpretation, as practiced through the Five
Step Reading Process, is committed to create decolonization strategies to connect with
the colonized experience of tribal people to help them play their traditional role of the
Prrngawan to facilitate ordinary tribal people to become the “real” and
“flesh-and-blood” readers of their tribal texts and biblical texts through their
mother-tongue to freely participate in constructing and in continuing to restore their
tribal spirituality, worldviews, and appropriation readings to highlight de-colonized
biblical readings in their struggles of their postcolonial context in present day Taiwan.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2012.
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Bible. Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Postcolonialism--Taiwan., Theses--Theology.