Hindus and Their Christian Bible
Author: R. S. Sugirtharajah
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About This BookR.S. Sugirtharajah shows how at the height of European colonialism whilst the colonizers were studying the sacred texts of Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and Zoroastrians, the Hindus were themselves 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. The result was that the Bible acquired a totally different form and lost 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. Sadly what these Hindus made of the Bible went largely unnoticed and was ignored by Western scholarship.This volume seeks to rectify this regrettable omission and to place both the Hindu reformers and nationalists attitude to the Bible in their own specific context and to allow them to speak on their own terms rather than reading them with Christian preconception. The Hindu reformers covered include figures such as Raja Rammohun Roy, Arumuga Navalar, Keshub Chunder Sen, Swami Vivekananda, Ponnambalam Ramanathan, M. K. Gandhi and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and nationalists such as Dhirendranath Chowdhary, Sita Ram Goel and Ram Swarup. The book contains the interpretative context; the textual negotiation that went on between these Hindus and the missionaries and orientalists; examples of their Hinduization of the Bible; and the hermeneutical impact on mainstream biblical interpretation. Read moreBook DetailsAuthor: R. S. SugirtharajahPublisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark (21 August 2025)Format: Paperback – 21 August 2025Language: EnglishPages: 224ISBN: 978-0567711571Dimensions: 15.6 x 1.2 x 23.39 cmWeight: 350 g
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- English • Paperback – 21 August 2025
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About This BookR.S. Sugirtharajah shows how at the height of European colonialism whilst the colonizers were studying the sacred texts of Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and Zoroastrians, the Hindus were themselves scrutinizing the invader's book – the Christian Bible. Sugirtharajah examines how...
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Recommended for readers who enjoy Arts, Literature and Humanities and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by R. S. Sugirtharajah.
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- If you’re drawn to deep, thought-provoking scholarship, this book is a revelation. You’ll discover how Hindu thinkers boldly re-read the Christian Bible during colonial rule, stripping it of imperial authority and reshaping it for their own cultural worlds. Richly researched and intellectually daring, this premium academic work gives you voices long ignored by Western scholarship and helps you see religion, power, and resistance in an entirely new light.
- Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark (21 August 2025).
- Language: English.
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About This BookR.S. Sugirtharajah shows how at the height of European colonialism whilst the colonizers were studying the sacred texts of Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and Zoroastrians, the Hindus were themselves 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. The result was that the Bible acquired a totally different form and lost 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. Sadly what these Hindus made of the Bible went...
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