MisReading America

Scriptures and Difference

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Av Vincent L. Wimbush, Vincent L Wimbush, Vincent L. Wimbush, Lalruatkima, Melissa Renee Reid, Claremont Graduate University) Wimbush, Vincent L. (Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures, Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures, Claremont Graduate University) Reid, Melissa Renee (PhD candidate, PhD candidate

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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.''

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-08-29
Mått234 x 155 x 25 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor326
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199975426

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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