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The Unchained Bible

Cultural Appropriations of Biblical Texts

  • Paperback
  • 176 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm

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This volume explores a number of instances of unexpected but influential readings of the Bible in popular culture, literature, film, music and politics. The argument in all of them is that the effects of the Bible continues to have an effect on contemporary culture in ways that may surprise and sometimes dismay both religious and secular groups. That the Bible was at one time chained in churches is true. The subversive misreading of this enchainment as a symbol of a book in captivity to the established church is hard to suppress, however. Yet, once released from these chains, the Bible proves to be a text that gets everywhere and which undergoes surprising and sometimes contradictory metamorphoses. The pious advocates of making the Bible accessible who sought to free it from the churches' chains are the very people who then decry some of the results when the Bible is free to roam.
The Unchained Bible and Text, Image, and Otherness in Children's Bibles
Text, Image, and Otherness in Children's BiblesThe Unchained Bible
  • Author

    Hugh S. Pyper

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    February 2014

  • Weight

    287g

  • Page Count

    176

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567652546

  • ISBN-10

    0567652548

  • Eden Code

    4255033

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