their different stages of articulation, then the ‘displacement’ of modernism by postmodernism [or colonialism by postcolonialism] becomes a complex matter and can vary according to the objective for which that displacement is argued” (Chow: 56). What does this staggered inheritance imply for the religious academy as well as the theory and practice of scriptural reading? One certain implication within biblical studies is the necessity of re-visiting the so-called “Great Commission” in Matthew 28:19–20.2
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