Chosen peoples: The Bible, race and empire in the long nineteenth century
Gareth Atkins (editor), Shinjini Das (editor), Brian Murray (editor)
Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century. Even as radical new ideas challenged the historicity of the Bible, biblical notions of lineage, descent and inheritance continued to inform understandings of race, nation and empire. European settler movements portrayed ‘new’ territories across the seas as lands of Canaan, but if many colonised and conquered peoples resisted the imposition of biblical narratives, they also appropriated biblical tropes to their own ends. These innovative case-studies throw new light on familiar areas such as slavery, colonialism and the missionary project, while forging exciting cross-comparisons between race, identity and the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in South Africa, Egypt, Australia, America and Ireland.
年:
2020
版本:
1
出版商:
Manchester University Press
語言:
english
頁數:
240
ISBN 10:
1526143046
ISBN 13:
9781526143044
系列:
Studies in Imperialism
文件:
PDF, 4.31 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020