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

• 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

"Wimbush s introduction makes important contributions to the theoretical base for a growing number of projects describing the ways that minoritized groups and individuals have read Scripture. The book s five studies offer rich displays of the agency of minoritized readers."--Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

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

• 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

"Wimbush s introduction makes important contributions to the theoretical base for a growing number of projects describing the ways that minoritized groups and individuals have read Scripture. The book s five studies offer rich displays of the agency of minoritized readers."--Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

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

• 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

"Wimbush s introduction makes important contributions to the theoretical base for a growing number of projects describing the ways that minoritized groups and individuals have read Scripture. The book s five studies offer rich displays of the agency of minoritized readers."--Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology