The Bible and Asia: From the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial Age - Rilegato

Sugirtharajah, R. S.

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ISBN 10: 0674049071 ISBN 13: 9780674049079

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 2021

Riassunto

Though the Bible is a product of West Asia, its influence on Europe and the Americas has received far more attention than its complex career in the East. R. S. Sugirtharajah corrects this imbalance with an expansive new study of Asia's subversive and idiosyncratic relationship with the Bible. This is the story of missionaries, imperialists, exegetes, reformers, and nationalists who molded Biblical texts according to their own needs in order to influence religion, politics, and daily life from India to China.

When the Bible reached east and south Asia in the third century CE, its Christian scriptures already bore traces of Asian commodities and Indian moral stories. In China, the Bible merged with the teachings of Buddha and Lao Tzu to produce the Jesus Sutras. As he recounts the history of how Christianity was influenced by other Asian religions, Sugirtharajah deftly highlights the controversial issue of Buddhist and Vedic influence on Biblical religion.

Once used to justify European rule in Asia, the Bible has also served to promote the spiritual salvation of women, outcasts, and untouchables. The Bible has left a literary mark on Asia in two ways: through its influence on Asian writers and through the reinvigoration of modern Asian vernaculars when proselytizing missionaries introduced Western print culture to the East.

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The book on the whole makes an interesting study, not just of the religion but of the people who were in direct contact through religious practices, of other regions and their reactions The author deals with the subject dispassionately, and with a remarkable detachment; nowhere he seems to have taken sides with the people he is dealing with, a point which makes the book an excellent read This book is a stimulating work; it explores the complex relationship between the Bible of the colonialists and the conquered. It goes far beyond the conventional studies provided so far, which were mostly one-sided and looked from the colonial point of view. In this work he packs a lot of information such as the complex relationship between the Bible and the colonial enterprise examining in depth some areas that have been overlooked in earlier studies. --K. R. A. Narasiah"The Hindu" (10/07/2013)"

"[A] collection of insightful, frequently surprising case studies, though it is important to point out that these studies provoke thoughts and conclusions of great relevance to the broader analysis of a fascinating subject." --Jonathon Wright, Catholic Herald, 28 March 2014

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From the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial Age

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0674049071
• ISBN 13: 9780674049079
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 303