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Semeia 75: Postcolonialism and Scriptural Reading is unavailable, but you can change that!

Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

of their mission school educations” (22). However, I would recontextualize this statement, since I believe what Gallagher describes as the allegedly “positive” effects of an imperial Christianity actually connotes the possibility of the colonized’s resistance to their own oppression. We should instead consider how the apparatuses of imperialism such as the mission school sometimes, but not always, contribute to its destruction. For example, one of the most effective strategies of colonization was
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