...) period to a particular form of liberation praxis, what has come to be called ‘Contextual Bible Study’. Forged in South Africa by the conceptual contours of both South African Black Theology and South African Contextual Theology, this approach took its initial conceptual shape from the community-based...

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... they turn not to their clergy, but to their peers and to a burgeoning cottage industry on spirituality at work. They attend conferences and seminars, participate in Bible study and prayer groups, and read books, blogs, and eNewsletters. They see their faith as a resource for ethical guidance and to help...

...The nature of modern Bible study changed in or about September 1969 when the French Catholic Association for the Study of the Bible got the already renommé structuralist Roland Barthes to analyse Acts 10-11 (the conversion of Cornelius) for its Chantilly Congress. This introduction...

... the proper place of Protestant practice in their world: that it was a thing among other things, an activity that began and ended, a form of recreation. Redemption in the RA/FSA camps could come from a range of activities and involvements, of which Bible study and other forms of Protestant worship were only...

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...This chapter tells the history of the adult Bible class movement, a nationwide effort among evangelical Protestants to increase lay Bible study at the turn of the twentieth century. While scholars have long studied the Bible in American life as the source of conflict between fundamentalist...

..., or CEBs) that most successfully met the new challenges. These small groups of mostly poor lay Catholics met for prayer, Bible study, local improvement projects, and political action. Although Brazil was the center of the movement, by the 1970s millions of Latin Americans—often people in the most desperate...

... and gender expression in the African context? The chapter starts by drawing on the Contextual Bible Study work developed by the Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research in relation to issues of sexuality and gender. It then offers two examples that illustrate how different interpretive resources...

... continent. This chapter details the conceptual journey of this NGO’s Reading Together Process, a method that brings together Theory of Action with Contextual Bible Studies and Intercultural Bible Theory. This chapter reflects from an NGO perspective on the way such an approach can draw on academic...

...In this chapter, discussions about Contextual Bible Study and contextual biblical interpretation as ‘marginal’ to the assumed more ‘central’ methods and pursuits of biblical studies are critically explored, both in relation to the methods, media, and representations used within the discipline...

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... with the power dynamic that functions in the process of SRHR decision making and in the interpretation process of the Bible. Contextual Bible study as an approach that gives epistemological privilege to those affected by a SRHR reality is proposed as a possible approach that could be adopted by faith communities...

... to feeding school-children and expanding Bible study sessions seemed benign, these white women’s growing awareness of racial disparities in Memphis and elsewhere caused them to question the South’s hierarchies in ways many of their peers did not. Ultimately, they found themselves challenging segregation more...

... contemporary contexts seriously for any and all biblical interpretation, before turning to Contextual Bible Study as a specific approach to reading the Bible. The chapter foregrounds how this volume takes seriously that biblical interpretations are produced by, with, and amidst political practices, attitudes...

... the potential of contextual interpretations to highlight the contextuality of the intercultural biblical interpretation scholar themselves, and, lastly, recognizing the potential for intellectual transformation and/or social change through conducting such work. Contextual Bible Study is explored...

... as a methodology in practical theology is described and a case study of Theological Action Research in which the Bible features is offered. Gerald West’s characterization of Contextual Bible Study is used to start the conversation. The chapter concludes with questions that Theological Action Research poses...

.... The chapter’s main case study looks at entries for the keyword ‘God’ in the context of mid-century covenant theology; it finds that even apparently minor decisions about the selection and presentation of keywords functioned as powerful indicators of doctrinal priorities and political investments. Bible study...

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