Hindus and their Christian Bible / R.S. Sugirtharajah.
| Author/creator |
Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.) author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2024. |
| Description | 216 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Introduction -- A moral testament -- Textual ordinances for temple worshippers -- Universal and intuitive truths -- A Saiva Cāstiram -- A world-renouncing gospel -- Bapu's bible -- A variant of the vedas -- Fanatical and fraudulent -- Afterword: Challenges and confrontations. |
| Abstract | "Sugirtharajah shows how at the height of European colonialism, and whilst the colonizers were studying the sacred texts of Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and Zoroastrians, the Hindus themselves were scrutinizing the invader's book, the Christian Bible. Sugirtharajah examines how these Hindus transformed the Bible into what they deemed fit for and suited to their contexts, a result of which being that the Bible acquired a totally different form while losing its authority as the Book of the Empire. Sugirtharajah shows how the resistant, subversive and at times antagonistic readings of the Hindus went beyond what the colonizer had intended and asks why these Hindu re-readings and re-framings of the Bible went largely unnoticed and were ignored by Western scholarship." -- Publisher, page four of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2023027509 |
| ISBN | 9780567711533 |
| ISBN | 0567711536 (hb) |
| ISBN | (epdf) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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