{"product_id":"the-bible-in-australia-meredith-lake-9781742237213","title":"The Bible in Australia","description":"\u003cp\u003e*Winner of the Nonfiction Award 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e*Winner of the 2019 NSW Premier's History Award: Australian History Prize*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e*Winner of the 2019 Prime Minister's Australian History Prize*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e*Winner of the 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e*Australian Christian Book of the Year in 2018*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKoby 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'From the opening words about Bra Boy tattoos,this book had me gripped. It breathes colour, poetry and life into our understanding of the Bible in Australia. A vital, much-needed addition to our understanding of faith in our country.' - Julia Baird\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A book of remarkable originality. Formidably researched yet carrying its scholarship with an enviable lightness of touch, this is a ground-breaking cultural and social history.' -Winner of the 2019 NSW Premier's History Award: Australian History Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Vivid story-telling and impossible to put down' - Mark McKenna\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An endlessly fascinating book...Lake brings a generosity of both mind and spirit to this vast story.' - Michael McGirr,Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meredith Lake","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43175890944243,"sku":"9781742237213","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781742237213.jpg?v=1688506197","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-bible-in-australia-meredith-lake-9781742237213","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}