Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-204) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Interpretation at the intersection of approaches -- Starting points and parameters : feminist and postcolonial analysis -- Paul, Philippians, and the plan of this book -- Histories of interpretation and "people's history" in Pauline studies -- Initial inquiries and imperial intersections in interpretation -- Gaps, erasures, and conflicts -- Procedure and precedent -- People's possibilities : subaltern history and problems of perspective -- People's history and Pauline studies -- Genealogies, genders, gaps, and geopolitics in people's history -- Back to the biblical : antiquity and feminist, postcolonial approaches -- A hymn within and a heavenly politeuma -- A heavenly politeuma and a hymn within -- Rhetorical interactions and Pauline interpretation : a postcolonial Paul? -- Initial connections and conclusions -- The rhetorics of imitation and postcolonial theories of mimicry -- Imitation rhetorics in Paul and in Pauline scholarship -- The promise and perils of postcolonial mimicry -- Post-poning any undue celebrations : criticisms, cautions, and calibrations of postcolonial mimicry -- Resistance, risks, and replications : on the limits of mimicry for a feminist postcolonial analysis -- Women in the contact zone -- Contact zone and transcultural interactions -- Pauline travels and the Philippian contact zone -- Euodia and syntyche : reconstructing co-workers in the contact zone -- Concluding reflections and connections -- Reviewing the present project -- Elaborating further possibilities.
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