The stolen Bible : from tool of imperialism to African icon / by Gerald O. West.

Introduction: the distinct Bible
Prologue: the African Bible
The African Bible: Mediterranean North Africa
The African Bible: Coptic, Nubian, and Ethiopian North Africa
The Imperial Bible: sub-Saharan or tropical Africa
The Imperial Bible
The empires' Bibles: Portuguese East Africa and Dutch South Africa
The folk Bible: religion at sea
The constrained Bible: bartering cattle
The prescribed Bible: the role of the sick-comforter
The retributive Bible: towards seizing African cattle
The mundane Bible: company rhythms at the Cape
The indigenous Bible: land and cattle as religion
The local Bible: religions of extraction and subsistence
The irrupting Bible: religion in an African context
The revealed Bible
The bartered Bible: trader-missionary travellers
The covered Bible: Burchell's visit
The uncovered Bible: Campbell's visit
The probed Bible: conversations with Mothibi
The dislocated Bible
The unsettled Bible: negotiating place
The relocated Bible: Hamilton's mundane mission
The embroiled Bible: Hamilton manages the mission
The eternal Bible: Hamilton's message
The disruptive Bible: an unstable interior
The observed Bible: the African gaze
The translated Bible
The theological Bible: Moffat's message
The vernacular Bible: Moffat's language labours
The military Bible: Moffat's mixed message
The short and simple Bible: Moffat's ABC
The (m)aligned Bible: Moffat's temporal and eternal message
The instructive Bible: Moffat's mode of translation
The appropriated Bible
The cultural Bible: African culture as Africa's old testament
The liberating Bible: Isaiah Shembe's Bible
The oral/aural Bible: Shembe's law
The re-written Bible: Shembe's teaching
The liturgical Bible: maidens performing the Bible
The communal Bible: corporate interpretation
The contested Bible
The trustworthy Bible: the book of hope
The ideological Bible: the oppressive voices of the Bible
The black Bible: what it means 'to have' the Bible
The Africans' Bible: other African theologies
The embodied Bible
The Marabi Bible: corporate preachings of the Bible
The sung Bible: the cadences of death
Mbuli's Bible: re-citing the Bible
The HIV Bible: the wages of sin and a word of hope
The AIDS Bible: the beast in the Bible
The narrative Bible: African commentary in art
The apocalyptic Bible: the 'son of man' in South Africa
The public Bible
The RDP Bible: the Bible re-enters the public realm
Mbeki's Bible: separating the moral and economic spheres
The church theology Bible: after prophetic theology
Mandela's Bible: Mandela's Methodism
The ANC Bible: the RDP of the soul
Zuma's Bible: a more popular religion
Ramaphosa's Bible: the re-redeployed Bible
Epilogue: the iconic Bible
The football fans' Bible: conjuring the Bible
Abahlali's Bible: the Bible among the social movements
The people's Bible: getting the cattle back.