A conference volume on the interpretation of classical religious text in contemporary Africa / K. Holter -- Hermaneutical contexts -- African hermaneutics in a global context : conceptual clarifications / J.N.K. Mugambi -- African versus Western hermaneutics / D.R.K. Nkurunziza -- Interpreting strange texts : hermaneutics as distance overcoming / B Mæland -- Religious texts in critical contexts : the interpretation of classical religious texts in contemporary African academia / K. Holter -- Classical religious texts in contemporary Africa -- Reading classical Islamic texts in contemporary Africa / T.L. Hassan -- The Lemba : the "People of the Book" in Southern Africa / Magdel Le Roux -- "Children, do you have any fish?" : re-inventing the Kairos Document / M.D. Biyela -- Moses and the cushite wife : reading Numbers 12:1 with undergraduate students of Makerere University / P. Lokel -- The poor are not us! : an exploration into the transforming possibilities of Old Testament and African proverbs on poverty / L.P. Kimilike -- Reading African true and traditional religion in Uganda / A.B.T. Byaruhanaga-Akiiki -- Hebrew shalom and Lusoga eidembe / N.H. Nambalirwa -- It's on the old mat that one weaves the new one : the dialogue between African proverbs and biblical texts / W. van Heerden -- Classical religious texts in dialogue -- The Old Testament outside the realm of the Church : a case from Madagascar / G.A. Razafindrakoto -- Killed by AIDS and buried by religion : African female bodies in crisis / M. Masenya (ngwanʼa Mphahlele) -- Reading African religion in contemporary Africa : a study of its impact and contribution towards an African Christianity / S.B. Kahakwa -- Theology of ancestors from an African perspective / S.B. Kahakwa -- Index of authors.