James in Postcolonial Perspective: The Letter as Nativist Discourse

by K. Jason Coker

Overview

James confronts the exploitive wealthy; it also opposes Pauline hybridity. K. Jason Coker argues that postcolonial perspectives allow us to understand how these themes converge in the letter. James opposes the exploitation of the Roman Empire and a peculiar Pauline form of hybridity that compromises with it; refutes Roman cultural practices, such as the patronage system and economic practices, that threaten the identity of the letter’s recipients; and condemns those who would transgress the boundaries between purity and impurity, God and “world.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506400358
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	08/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	326
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

K. Jason Coker is adjunct lecturer at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut, and pastor at Wilton Baptist Church.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Part I Constructing the Native

1 Introduction 3

2 Nativism 13

3 Pure and Perfect Piety: Nativist Discourse in the Letter of James 51

Part II Confronting Colonialism and Hating Hybridity

4 Identifying the Imperial Presence 109

5 Identifying the Mimetic Monster, Part 1 171

6 Identifying the Mimetic Monster, Part 2 229

7 Conclusion 277

Bibliography 281

Index of Subjects and Names 297

Index of Scripture and Ancient Literature References 305