Chosen peoples : the Bible, race and empire in the long nineteenth century
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Chosen peoples : the Bible, race and empire in the long nineteenth century
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press, 2020
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-221) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction - Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das and Brian H. Murray
Part I: Peoples and lands
1 'A bad and dangerous book?': the biblical identity politics of the Demerara Slave Rebellion - John Coffey
2 Babylon, the Bible and the Australian Aborigines - Hilary M. Carey
3 'The Ships of Tarshish': the Bible and British Maritime Empire - Gareth Atkins
4 Jeremiah in Tara: British Israel and the Irish past - Brian H. Murray
Part II: The Bible in transit and translation
5 The British and Foreign Bible Society's Arabic Bible translations: a study in language politics - Heather J. Sharkey
6 Empire and nation in the politics of the Russian Bible - Stephen K. Batalden
7 Contested identity: the Veda as an alternative to the Bible - Dorothy Figueira
8 'The Bible makes all nations one': Biblical literacy and Khoesan national renewal in the Cape Colony - Jared McDonald
9 Distinction and dispersal: the nineteenth-century roots of segregationist folk theology in the American South - Stephen R. Haynes
10 Afterword/afterlife: identity, genealogy, legacy - David N. Livingstone
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Index -- .
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