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Language and Translation from the KJV to the Yoruba Bible Language and Translation from the KJV to the Yoruba Bible
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Mission and Vernacular Translation: Challenging Enlightenment and Colonialism Mission and Vernacular Translation: Challenging Enlightenment and Colonialism
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Current Awakening and New Directions Current Awakening and New Directions
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Statistical Summaries Statistical Summaries
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11 Bible, Translation, and Culture: From the KJV to the Christian Resurgence in Africa
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Published:January 2014
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Abstract
This chapter demonstrates how religious developments in Africa had forced a reconsideration of the received wisdom about secularization. Turning to the identity-forming role of the Bible, it shows how vernacular translation of the sacred text shaped the nations of modern Africa, challenging widely accepted postcolonial assumptions about the colonial project. Despite prevailing ideas about missions as essentially a narrative of European interests and values, by the nineteenth century African pioneers had turned the Christian narrative into one that was reflective of their own history and hopes. The African narrative was about new possibilities for the religion as a historical intercultural movement invested in the rising aspirations of a new generation of Africans. The chapter describes how Christianity was inscribed into indigenous forms to become a stimulus for awakening and renewal in Africa.
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