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

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.

Author: Gareth Atkins
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9781526160201
ISBN10: 152616020X
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | History
- History | Modern | 19th Century
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

About the Author

Gareth Atkins is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Queens' College, Cambridge

Shinjini Das is a Lecturer in Modern Extra-European History at the University of East Anglia

Brian Murray is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at King's College London