The Bible in Australia A cultural history by Meredith Lake - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781742237213

The Bible in Australia A cultural history by Meredith Lake

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*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*

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 multi-award-winning history of the Bible in Australia, historian Meredith Lake gets under the skin of a text that's been wrestled with, preached and tattooed, and believed to be everything from a resented imposition to the very Word of God.

A must-read for non-believers and believers alike, The Bible in Australia, now with a new preface, explores how in the hands of Bible-bashers, immigrants, suffragists, evangelists, unionists, writers, artists and Indigenous Australians, the Good Book has played a defining and contested role in this country.

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