The Bible and Asia : : From the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial Age / / R. S. Sugirtharajah.
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 in...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | 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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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674726468 9783110649772 9783110317350 9783110317343 9783110317336 9783110374889 9783110374902 9783110442205 9783110459517 9783110662566 |
DOI: | 10.4159/harvard.9780674726468 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | R. S. Sugirtharajah. |