MisReading America
Scriptures and Difference
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 August 2013
- ISBN 9780199975419
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 160x236x20 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 illus. 0
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Short description:
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 analytical wedge.
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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.''
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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)
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