MisReading America (eBook, PDF)

Scriptures and Difference
Redaktion: Wimbush, Vincent L.; Reid, Melissa Renee; Lalruatkima

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Produktbeschreibung

MisReading America presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in American communities of color, using the phenomenon of the reading of scriptures--''scripturalizing''--as an analytical wedge. Scriptures here are understood as shorthand for complex social phenomena, practices, and dynamics. The authors take up scripturalizing as a window onto the self-understandings, politics, practices, and orientations of marginalized communities. These communities have in common the context that is the United States, with the challenges it holds for all regarding: pressure to conform to conventional-canonical forms of communication, representation, and embodiment (mimicry); opportunities to speak back to and confront and overturn conventionality (interruptions); and the need to experience ongoing meaningful and complex relationships (reorientation) to the centering politics, practices, and myths that define ''America.''

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199977338
• Artikelnr.: 39179240

Autorenporträt

Vincent L. Wimbush is Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures at Claremont Graduate University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Contributors
* Introduction: Knowing Ex-Centrics, Ex-Centric Knowing - Vincent L.
Wimbush
* Chapter 1: Native Evangelicals and Scriptural Ethnologies - Andrea
Smith
* Chapter 2: Scriptures as Sundials in African American Lives - Velma
E. Love
* Chapter 3: Reading the Word in America: U.S. Latino/a Religious
Communities and Their Scriptures - Efrain Agosto
* Chapter 4: Asian Americans, Bible Believers: An Ethnological Study -
Tat-siong Benny Liew
* Chapter 5: Maronite Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Sunni Muslims
from the Arab Region: Between Empire, Racialization, and Assimilation
- Nadine Naber and Matthew Stiffler
* Appendix 1: Chapter 1: Research Information
* Appendix 2.1: Chapter 4: Interview Questionnaire
* Appendix 2.2: Chapter 4: Collaborators/Research Team Members
* Appendix 2.3: Chapter 4: Interviewee List (With Pseudonyms)
* Bibliography
* Index