The Bible and empire : postcolonial explorations /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2005]
Subjects:	Bible > Use > History. Great Britain > Colonies > Religion. Christianity and politics > Great Britain > Colonies > History. Bijbel. Britse Rijk. Kolonialisme. Bible > Actualisation > Histoire. Christianisme et politique > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire. Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Religion.
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Table of Contents:

Textually conjoined twins : Rammohun Roy and Thomas Jefferson and their Bibles
Salvos from the Victorian pulpit : conscription of texts by Victorian preachers during the Indian rebellion of 1857
Thorns in the crown : the subversive and complicit hermeneutics of John Colenso of Natal and James Long of Bengal
Texts and testament : the Hebrew scriptures in colonial context
Imperial fictions and biblical narratives : entertainment and exegesis in colonial novels.