The Bible and Patriarchy in Traditional Tribal Society

As a Northeast Indian tribal Christian analyzing biblical perspectives on gender, Chingboi Guite provides us with a fresh voice that expands our understanding of the intersection between the Bible and culture. Drawing on her traditional tribal culture, on the introduction of colonialism and Christianity, on contemporary methods of biblical scholarship, and on her own personal experience in India and in the United States in immigrant and non-immigrant churches, Dr. Guite charts a biblically informed path forward for women within her own emerging Christian context. * Theodore Hiebert, Professor Emeritus, McCormick Theological Seminary, USA * A scholarly distinctive book reflecting on the sensitive yet crucial nature of how culture and biblical texts coalesce in the modern Christian tribal society of North East India. The experiences she faced as a woman and a mother from Paite patriarchal tribal society, and living abroad as an immigrant encountering American values and culture, makes Chingboi Guite Phaipi question the ways in which biblical texts are used as a stamp to validate patriarchal practices and female subjugation. Her suggestion to avoid eisegesis and the need to reread and reinterpret biblical narratives through a gender neutral eye is quite alluring. * S. Thianlalmuan Ngaihte, Chanambam Ibomcha College, affiliated to Manipur University, India *