In the name of God
Subtitle: the Bible in the colonial discourse of empire
By: edited by C.L. Crouch and Jonathan Stökl with the assistance of Cat Quine
Series: Biblical interpretation series -- Volume 126; Biblical interpretation series -- v. 126.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9789004258334; 9789004259126
Subjects: Use; Bible; Hermeneutik; Imperialismus; Criticism, interpretation; Christianity and politics; Mission; Bibel; Rezeption; Kolonialismus; History
Description: In In the Name of God biblical scholars and historians begin the exciting work of deconstructing British and Spanish imperial usage of the Bible as well as the use of the Bible to counteract imperialism.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- C.L. Crouch and Jonathan Stökl; title: Comparing the 'Telegraph Bible' of the late British empire to the Chaotic Bible of the sixteenth century Spanish empire: beyond the Canaan mandate into anxious parables of the land  -- Yvonne Sherwood; title: The Esperança de Israel: a mission to Cromwell  -- Maria Ana T. Valdez; title: Mare clausum, Leviathan, and Oceana: Bible criticism, secularisation and imperialism in seventeenth-century English political and legal thought  -- Mark Somos; title: The armies of Gog, the merchants of Tarshish, and the British empire  -- Andrew Mein; title: The 'Jerusalemgangers' as an illustration of resistance against the Britism empire and nineteenth century biblical interpretation in southern Africa  -- Hendrik Bosman; title: The battle of the books: the Bible versus the Vedas -- Hugh Pyper.