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

Contributor(s): Atkins, Gareth [editor.] | Das, Shinjini, 1982- [editor.] | Murray, Brian H, 1981- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England): Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020Copyright date: © 2020Description: x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1526143046; 9781526143044Subject(s): Race -- Biblical teaching | Imperialism -- Religious aspectsLOC classification: BS680.R2 | C46 2020Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-221) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das, Brian H. Murray -- 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 -- 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.

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

Introduction / Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das, Brian H. Murray -- 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.

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