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The Postcolonial Biblical Reader

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

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The Postcolonial Biblical Reader

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

This wide-ranging Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the interaction between postcolonial criticism and biblical studies. Examines how various empires such as the Persian and Roman affected biblical narratives. Demonstrates how different biblical writers such as Paul, Matthew and Mark handled the challenges of empire. Includes examples of the practical application of postcolonial criticism to biblical texts. Considers contemporary issues such as diaspora, race, representation and territory. Editorial commentary draws out the key points to be made and creates a coherent narrative.

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Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

History, Method, Practice

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

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Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

History, Method, Practice

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Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: History, Method, Practice offers a concise and multifaceted overview of the origins, development, and application of postcolonial criticism to biblical studies.? Offers a concise and accessible introduction to postcolonial biblical studies Provides a comprehensive overview of postcolonial studies by one of the field's most prominent figures Explains one of the most innovative and important developments in modern biblical studies Accessible enough to appeal to general readers interested in religion

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Hindus and Their Christian Bible

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

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Hindus and Their Christian Bible

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R.S. Sugirtharajah shows how at the height of European colonialism whilst the colonizers were studying the sacred texts of Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and Zoroastrians, the Hindus were themselves scrutinizing the invader's book the Christian Bible. Sugirtharajah examines how these Hindus transformed the Bible into what they deemed fit for and suited to their contexts. The result was that the Bible acquired a totally different form and lost its authority as the Book of the Empire. Sugirtharajah shows how the resistant, subversive and at times antagonistic readings of the Hindus went beyond what the colonizer had intended. Sadly what these Hindus made of the Bible went largely unnoticed and was ignored by Western scholarship. This volume seeks to rectify this regrettable omission and to place both the Hindu reformers and nationalists attitude to the Bible in their own specific context and to allow them to speak on their own terms rather than reading them with Christian preconception. The Hindu reformers covered include figures such as Raja Rammohun Roy, Arumuga Navalar, Keshub Chunder Sen, Swami Vivekananda, Ponnambalam Ramanathan, M. K. Gandhi and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and nationalists such as Dhirendranath Chowdhary, Sita Ram Goel and Ram Swarup. The book contains the interpretative context; the textual negotiation that went on between these Hindus and the missionaries and orientalists; examples of their Hinduization of the Bible; and the hermeneutical impact on mainstream biblical interpretation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567711544

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The Bible and Empire

Postcolonial Explorations

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

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The Bible and Empire

Postcolonial Explorations

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

Sugirtharajah explores the complex relationship between the Bible and the colonial enterprise.

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The Brahmin and his Bible

Rammohun Roy’s Precepts of Jesus 200 Years On

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

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The Brahmin and his Bible

Rammohun Roy’s Precepts of Jesus 200 Years On

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

On the bicentenary of the publication of Raja Rammohun Roy's Precepts of Jesus, R. S. Sugirtharajah situates Roy's compilation of the moral teachings of Jesus in its social, cultural and political context and analyses the hermeneutical issues it generated. In doing so, he documents the often acrimonious exegetical exchanges between Roy and the missionaries over the standing and status of the Bible; their often differing hermeneutical suppositions and strategies; their contradictory consturals of Jesus; and disputes about translations. Sugirtharajah addresses issues such as the place of the Precepts among earlier Gospel Harmonies, Roy's use of the Improved Version, a highly contentious Unitarian Bible, and his motives for translating his own Hindu texts. Sugirtharajah also demonstrates how Roy's work was a precursor to de-mythologization which the West took up later, and how Roy's identification of Jesus as an Asiatic, and his idea of a moral union between Father and Son, were routinely reused by later Indian writers. An additional feature is a critical look at Thomas Jefferson's The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, which appeared in the same year and which had a similar interpretative aim and aspiration. This volume also includes Roy's Precepts in full. There have been popular perceptions of Roy as someone who strongly disapproved of various Christian doctrines and was highly rationalistic in his outlook. Sugirtharajah demonstrates that Roy was much more complex in his writings. His initial rationalistic energy and passion, displayed in his Precepts, gave way to something much more intuitively and emotionally based which, ironically, did not disturb the foundations of Christianity but made them stronger and safer for Christians. Sugirtharajah brings to the fore a forgotten but significant work which raised important issues for biblical studies and the power relations between colonized and colonizer over the control of texts and interpretation. He draws lessons from this 19th-century colonial religious controversy for a postcolonial world where religious texts are manipulated to provoke religious hatred and violence.

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The Bible and the Third World

Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

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The Bible and the Third World

Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters

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A comprehensive history of the Bible in the Third World.

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The Bible and Asia

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

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The Bible and Asia

By: 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 influence religion, politics, and daily life from India to China.

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Harvard University Press

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0674726464

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Voices from the Margin

Interpreting the Bible in the World

By: R.S. Sugirthharajah

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Voices from the Margin

Interpreting the Bible in the World

By: R.S. Sugirthharajah

An essential resource on interpretations of the Bible from scholars around the world. This substantially revised edition has been expanded to include sixteen new essays and a new section on postcolonial readings of scripture. It also contains a new introduction and an afterword by the editor, calling attention to new developments in biblical interpretation.

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The Postcolonial Biblical Reader

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Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism

Contesting the Interpretations

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

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Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism

Contesting the Interpretations

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

The volume contributes a postcolonial perspective to such topics as textual production, commentarial writings and translations in colonial times, and then moves on to inspect Eurocentric notions embedded in current western biblical interpretation especially in projects such as "Jesus Research." It also contains an overview of and introduction to one of the most challenging and controversial theories of our time, postcolonialism--a theory that gives mediation and representation to Third World people. Though long established in cultural studies, postcolonial theory has not previously been seriously applied to Asian biblical interpretation.

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Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

History, Method, Practice

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

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The Bible and Empire

Postcolonial Explorations

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The Bible and Empire

Postcolonial Explorations

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At a time when there is a renewed interest in Empire, this volume explores the complex relationship between the Bible and the colonial enterprise, and examines some overlooked aspects of this relationship. Topics include the unconventional retellings of the gospel story of Jesus by Thomas Jefferson and Raja Rammohun Roy, and the fate of biblical texts when marshalled by Victorian preachers after the Indian uprising of 1857. The innovative book features practical as well as theoretical insights, providing compelling evidence of the continuing importance of postcolonial discourse for biblical studies.

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Scripture: A Guide for the Perplexed

By: William R S Lamb

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Scripture: A Guide for the Perplexed

By: William R S Lamb

Given the extraordinary richness and range of contemporary theology, questions about the authority and inspiration of the Bible tend to garner ever increasing variety, complexity and controversy. Among those challenges include the questions posed by biblical criticism to the enterprise of Christian theology, and the place of scripture in the life of the contemporary church. Employing a range of conversation partners, this book will provide an up-to-date survey of the diverse ways in which contemporary theologians use the Bible 'to think with'. The volume enables students to compare different approaches to the reading of scripture. It also explores the ways in which the theological interpretation of scripture can be both a critical and a spiritual exercise.

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The Brahmin and his Bible

Rammohun Roy’s Precepts of Jesus 200 Years On

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

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Rammohun Roy’s Precepts of Jesus 200 Years On

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The Bible and the Third World

Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

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The Bible and the Third World

Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters

By: R. S. Sugirtharajah

This is a comprehensive history of the Bible in the Third World from precolonial days to the postcolonial period. It examines the work of theologians from the non-Western world. The volume is an invaluable guide to anyone interested in learning about the impact of the Bible on Third World cultures.

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Hindus and Their Christian Bible

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The Bible and Asia

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Jesus in Asia

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Jesus in Asia

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Jesus in the sutras, stele, and suras -- The heavenly elder brother -- A Judean jnana-guru -- The non-existent Jesus -- A Jaffna man's Jesus -- Jesus as a Jain tirthankara -- An Upanishadic mystic -- A minjung messiah -- Jesus in a kimono -- Conclusion: Our Jesus, their Jesus

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