{"product_id":"hindus-and-their-christian-bible-9780567711571","title":"Hindus and Their Christian Bible","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eR.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 prec","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862742892887,"sku":"9780567711571","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780567711571.jpg?v=1759918626","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hindus-and-their-christian-bible-9780567711571","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}