Title: Hindus and Their Christian Bible
Description: <b>R.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</b>. 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.
Subjects: Christianity and other religions, Hinduism, Biblical studies & exegesis, Christianity
Places: India