Chosen peoples : the Bible, race and empire in the long nineteenth century / edited by Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das and Brian H. Murray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atkins, Gareth, editor.

Das, Shinjini, 1982- editor.

Murray, Brian H., 1981- editor.

Series:

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race--Biblical teaching.

Race.

Imperialism--Religious aspects.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This innovative interdisciplinary volume explores the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in a global context, demonstrating how biblical ideas and metaphors shaped narratives of racial, national and identity in the long nineteenth century.

Contents:

Part I. Peoples and lands. 'A bad and dangerous book'?: the biblical identity politics of the Demerara Slave Rebellion / John Coffey

Babylon, the Bible and the Australian Aborigines / Hilary M. Carey

'The ships of Tarshish': the Bible and British Maritime Empire / Gareth Atkins

Jeremiah in Tara: British Israel and the Irish past / Brian H. Murray

Part II. The Bible in transit and translation. The British and Foreign Bible Society's Arabic Bible translations: a study in language politics / Heather J. Sharkey

Empire and nation in the politics of the Russian Bible / Stephen K. Batalden

Contested identity: the Veda as an alternative to the Bible / Dorothy Figueira

'The Bible makes all nations one': biblical literacy and Khoesan national renewal in the Cape Colony / Jared McDonald

Distinction and dispersal: the nineteenth-century roots of segregationist folk theology in the American South / Stephen R. Haynes

Afterword/afterlife: identity, genealogy, legacy / David N. Livingstone.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-221) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781526143044

1526143046

9781526160201

OCLC:

1104064466

Publisher Number:

99984751866