The Bible in Australia
By Meredith Lake
- Subject
- Social Issues / General
- Published
- Jul 01, 2018
- Pages
- 336
- Format
- paperback
- ISBN
- 9781742235714
About this book
WINNER of the Nonfiction Award 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
WINNER of the 2019 NSW Premier's History Award: Australian History Prize
WINNER of the 2019 Prime Minister's Australian History Prize
WINNER of the 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize
Australian Christian Book of the Year in 2018
'STUNNING, REFRESHING AND ORIGINAL.' - JULIA BAIRD
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.
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