Towards a Pentecostal, Postcolonial Reading of the New Testament

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" Towards a Pentecostal, Postcolonial Reading of the New Testament "
U-Wen Low

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079753
Doc. No	:	LA123382
Call No	:	‭10.1163/17455251-02902004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	U-Wen Low
Title & Author	:	Towards a Pentecostal, Postcolonial Reading of the New Testament [Article]\ U-Wen Low
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Pentecostal Theology
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	29/2
Page No	:	229–243
Abstract	:	Although both Pentecostalism and postcolonial thought seem to stand poles apart, they have a remarkable amount in common. Early Pentecostal revivals largely sprang from ‘subaltern groups’, people groups marginalized by colonial power and dominant groups. Bringing together Pentecostalism and postcolonial thought is a complex task, but one that promises to yield positive results. Exploring the text through the twin lenses of postcolonial thought and the distinctive Pentecostal emphasis on pneumatology results in a fresh hermeneutical perspective: that the Holy Spirit might be understood as a postcolonial agent of change that empowers those who have experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit to resist dominant structures of oppression. The New Testament text can therefore be understood as a ‘hidden transcript’, a disguised work of resistance composed by subaltern groups against dominance and oppression. This article therefore seeks to explore the theoretical underpinnings of a ‘Pentecostal, postcolonial reading’ of the New Testament.
Descriptor	:	Biblical Interpretations
Descriptor	:	Biblical Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Hermeneutics
Descriptor	:	New Testament
Descriptor	:	Pentecostalism
Descriptor	:	Postcolonial
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/17455251-02902004‬