Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 247 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511614552
Content:
At a time of renewed interest in Empire, this stimulating volume explores the complex relationship between the Bible and the colonial enterprise, and examines some overlooked aspects of this relationship. These include unconventional retellings of the gospel story of Jesus by Thomas Jefferson and Raja Rammohun Roy; the fate of biblical texts when marshalled by Victorian preachers to strengthen British imperial intentions after the India uprising of 1857; the cultural-political use of the Christian Old Testament, first by the invaders to attack temple practices and rituals, then by the invaded to endorse the temple heritage scorned by missionaries; the dissident hermeneutics of James Long and William Colenso confronting and compromising with colonial ambitions; and finally the subtly seditious deployment of biblical citations in two colonial novels. This innovative book offers both practical and theoretical insights and provides compelling evidence of the continuing importance of postcolonial discourse for biblical studies.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Textually conjoined twins : Rammohun Roy and Thomas Jefferson and their Bibles -- Salvos from the Victorian pulpit : conscription of texts by Victorian preachers during the Indian rebellion of 1857 -- Thorns in the crown : the subversive and complicit hermeneutics of John Colenso of Natal and James Long of Bengal -- Texts and testament : the Hebrew scriptures in colonial context -- Imperial fictions and biblical narratives : entertainment and exegesis in colonial novels.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521531917
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521824934
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521824934
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521531917
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Sugirtharajah, Rasiah S. The Bible and empire Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005 ISBN 0521824931
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521531918
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521824934
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521531917
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521824934
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hermeneutik
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Bibel
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Postkolonialismus
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511614552
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