'STUNNING, REFRESHING AND ORIGINAL.' - JULIA BAIRDKoby 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.
ISBN: | 9781742245102 |
Publication date: | 13th November 2020 |
Author: | Lake, Meredith |
Publisher: | University of New South Wales Press |
Format: | Ebook (Epub) |