CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One Introduction: A Sociopostcolonial Hermeneutics -- Paul as a Sociopostcolonial Hermeneut -- Dominant Perspectives on Paul -- Beyond the Perspectives on Paul -- Insights from Social Sciences: A Concise History -- Social Sciences and Galatians -- Postcolonial Contributions -- Classical and Hellenistic Examples -- A Roman Example -- A French Example -- A Diola Sociopostcolonial Hermeneutics -- Chapter Two Identity and the Socioreligious Context of Pre-Christian and Christian Galatians -- A History of Research -- Who Were the Gauls/Galatians? Gauls in Classical Literature -- The Gauls/Galatians Publically Displayed: Classical Typologies -- Barbarism Publically Displayed as Vanquished -- The Inescapable Eyes of the Gods: The Socioreligious Aspects of Anatolian Galatian Life -- Socioreligious Context -- Gods, Goddesses, and People in Galatia -- Curses, Prayers, and the Quest for Divine Justice -- Voices Etched on Stones: The Divine Demand for Confession-Propitiation -- Priests and their Function -- Chapter Three Senegalese Diola in Context -- Who Were the Diola? -- Africans as Barbarians and Savages -- Barbarians and Savages: Diola People Through French Eyes -- The Inescapable Presence of Ala or Ata Emit: The Socioreligious Dimensions of Diola Communal Life -- The Diola Socioreligious Setting -- The Inescapable Presence of Ata, Ala Emit, and Emitai -- Curses and Prayers: The Quest for Divine Justice in the Hank (Community) -- The Role of the Priesthood -- Prophecy of Resistence and Creation of an Alternative Hank "Community" -- Socioreligious and Economic Context -- Prophetic Resistence to French Colonial Rule -- Chapter Four Modes of Community and Identity Formation: An Exegesis of Galatians 2:11-14 and 3:26-29 -- Conflict and Parting of Ways with an Enslaving Mission: Galatians 2:11-14.

The Locus and Nature of a Freeing Mission: Galatians 3:26-29 -- Community and Identity Formation in Galatian and Diola Communities -- Judean Identity Formation and non-Judean Inclusion -- A Pauline Community and Identity Formation -- A Diola Community Formation -- Chapter Five A Postcolonial Reading of Paul's Epistle to the Churches of Galatia: A Conclusion -- Divine Rationale for Colonization in Ancient and Modern Times -- Greek Colonization -- Roman Colonization -- French Colonization -- Sociopostcolonial Hermeneutical Contributions -- Current African Postcolonial Voices -- Paul as a Countercolonist and Sociopostcolonial Hermeneut -- A Liberating Inculturation of the Biblical Message -- Bibliography -- Index.