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

Description: Chosen Peoples by Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das, Brian Murray This innovative interdisciplinary volume explores the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in a global context, demonstrating how biblical ideas and metaphors shaped narratives of racial, national and identity in the long nineteenth century. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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. Flap Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped narratives of racial, national and imperial identity in the long nineteenth century. Even and indeed especially amid spreading secularism, the development of professionalised science and the proclamation of modernity, biblical notions of lineage, descent and inheritance continued to inform understandings of race, nation and character at every level from the popular to the academic. Although new ideas and discoveries were challenging the historicity of the Bible, even markedly secular thinkers chose to explain their complex and radical ideas through biblical analogy. Denizens of the seething industrial cities of America and Europe championed or criticized them as New Jerusalems and Modern Babylons, while modern nation states were contrasted with or likened to Egypt, Greece and Israel. Imperial expansion prompted people to draw scriptural parallels, as European settler movements portrayed new territories across the seas as lands of Canaan. Yet such language did not just travel in one direction. If many colonised and conquered peoples resisted the imposition of biblical narratives, they also appropriated biblical tropes to their own ends. These original case-studies, by emerging and established scholars, throw new light on familiar areas such as slavery, colonialism and the missionary project, while opening up exciting cross-comparisons between race, identity and the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in South Africa, Egypt, Australia, America and Ireland. The book will be essential reading for academic, graduate and undergraduate readers in empire, race and global religion in the long nineteenth century. Author Biography Gareth Atkins is Bye-Fellow and College Lecturer in History at Queens College, CambridgeShinjini Das is a Lecturer in Modern Extra-European History at the University of East AngliaBrian Murray is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Kings College London Table of Contents Introduction – Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das and Brian H. MurrayPart I: Peoples and lands1 A bad and dangerous book?: the biblical identity politics of the Demerara Slave Rebellion – John Coffey2 Babylon, the Bible and the Australian Aborigines – Hilary M. Carey3 The Ships of Tarshish: the Bible and British Maritime Empire – Gareth Atkins4 Jeremiah in Tara: British Israel and the Irish past – Brian H. MurrayPart II: The Bible in transit and translation5 The British and Foreign Bible Societys Arabic Bible translations: a study in language politics – Heather J. Sharkey6 Empire and nation in the politics of the Russian Bible – Stephen K. Batalden7 Contested identity: the Veda as an alternative to the Bible – Dorothy Figueira8 The Bible makes all nations one: Biblical literacy and Khoesan national renewal in the Cape Colony – Jared McDonald9 Distinction and dispersal: the nineteenth-century roots of segregationist folk theology in the American South – Stephen R. Haynes10 Afterword/afterlife: identity, genealogy, legacy – David N. LivingstoneSelect bibliographyIndex Review The flag follows the cross and in this case reaffirms it. The received understanding is that the Age of Enlightenment put to rest the dominance of religion in modern Western cultures. This collection proves Christianity and its political avatar nationalism truly underscored the age of empires. The impact was as profound on indigenous nationalisms, with subordinated societies discovering their distinct identities in the wake of first contact with colonizing Christians. Among the many case studies is Khoisan national renewal in the Cape Colony: Jared McDonald examines Christian liberation as a means to racial equality (albeit short-lived) in British South Africa. The Bible as 19th-century political testament echoed the late medieval struggle between an imperial, all-powerful church and the desire for national congregations to access the word of God in their national languages. Centralization was at odds with dissemination, a conflict the Russian czarist confessional state experienced rather keenly. Atkins (history, Queens College, Cambridge, UK), Das (modern extra-European history, Univ. of East Anglia, UK), and Murray (19th-century literature, Kings College London, UK) clearly establish that the Bible was alive and well in the long 19th century.--J. L. Meriwether, Roger Williams UniversitySumming Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association. -- . Long 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. Review Quote The flag follows the cross and in this case reaffirms it. The received understanding is that the Age of Enlightenment put to rest the dominance of religion in modern Western cultures. This collection proves Christianity and its political avatar nationalism truly underscored the age of empires. The impact was as profound on indigenous nationalisms, with subordinated societies discovering their distinct identities in the wake of first contact with colonizing Christians. Among the many case studies is Khoisan national renewal in the Cape Colony: Jared McDonald examines Christian liberation as a means to racial equality (albeit short-lived) in British South Africa. The Bible as 19th-century political testament echoed the late medieval struggle between an imperial, all-powerful church and the desire for national congregations to access the word of God in their national languages. Centralization was at odds with dissemination, a conflict the Russian czarist confessional state experienced rather keenly. Atkins (history, Queens College, Cambridge, UK), Das (modern extra-European history, Univ. of East Anglia, UK), and Murray (19th-century literature, Kings College London, UK) clearly establish that the Bible was alive and well in the long 19th century.--J. L. Meriwether, Roger Williams UniversitySumming Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association. Details ISBN152616020X Short Title Chosen Peoples Publisher Manchester University Press Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 152616020X ISBN-13 9781526160201 Format Paperback Publication Date 2021-09-07 Subtitle The Bible, Race and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century Pages 240 UK Release Date 2021-09-07 Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 2 black & white illustrations NZ Release Date 2021-09-07 Author Brian Murray Series Studies in Imperialism Edited by Brian Murray DEWEY 325.3209034 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-08-31 Alternative 9781526143044 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159677923;

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