The Bible and Asia : from the pre-Christian era to the postcolonial age / R.S. Sugirtharajah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Asia.

Bible.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Bible's influence on the West has received much more attention than its complex career in the East. R. S. Sugirtharajah's expansive study of Asia's idiosyncratic relationship with the Bible tells of missionaries, imperialists, and reformers who molded Biblical texts in order to influence religion, politics, and daily life from India to China.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

1. Merchandise, Moralities, and Poetics of Aryans, Dravidians, and Israelites

2. Colonial Bureaucrats and the Search for Older Testaments

3. Enlisting Christian Texts for Protest in the Empire

4. A Buddhist Ascetic and His Maverick Misreadings of the Bible

5. Paul the Roman in Asia

6. Exegesis in Eastern Climes

7. Between the Lines of Asian Fiction

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index of Scriptural References

General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674728097

0674728092

9780674726468

0674726464

OCLC:

865853143