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Chosen Peoples: The Bible, Race and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chosen Peoples: The Bible, Race and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century

Atkins, Gareth
Das, Shinjini
Murray, Brian

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Imperialism, Book 190

Religion General General Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1526143046
ISBN13: 9781526143044
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Feb 11 2020
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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