Chosen Peoples
The Bible, Race and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Publication
2020 - Manchester University Press
Language
English
Word Count
57,500 words, Guess
Page Count
230 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28057417M
- ISBN-139781526143051
- ISBN-101526143054
- OCLC Control Number1104064466
- Better World Books9781526143051
Classifications
- LCCBS680.R2 C46 2020
Description
"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."-- Back cover.
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