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The Bible and Asia : From the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial Age / R. S. Sugirtharajah.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674049079
  • 9780674726468
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.095 23
LOC classification:
  • BS511.3
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674726468

Frontmatter -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)