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The Bible in Australia
A cultural history
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Artikel-Nr:
9781742235714
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2018
Seiten:
446
Autor:
Meredith Lake
Gewicht:
754 g
Format:
234x156x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Meredith Lake is a historian of religion, society and culture in Australia, with a PhD from the University of Sydney. She is the author of a highschoolers' guide to The Bible Down Under (2016), and a study in social welfare from the Great Depression to the present, Faith in Action: Hammond Care (UNSW Press, 2013).
Koby Abberton emerges like a shark on to the sand at Maroubra Beach. Tattooed from shoulder to shoulder, his body bares letters like teeth: 'My brothers keeper'.In this surprising and revelatory history of the Bible in Australia, Meredith Lake gets under the skin of a text that's been read, wrestled with, preached and tattooed, and believed to be everything from a resented imposition to the very Word of God.The Bible in Australia explores how in the hands of Bible-bashers, immigrants, suffragists, evangelists, unionists, writers, artists and Indigenous Australians, the Bible has played a contested but defining role in this country.