Margin Writing and Marginal Communities: Between Belonging and Non-Belonging
What does it mean to live “in the margins of tradition”? Many intentional Christian communities occupy this space of marginality, living on the edge of a tradition in which they feel both the need to belong and the impossibility of belonging. Marginal hermeneutics suggests that the interpretive spac...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1996
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Pacifica
Year: 1996, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-54 |
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| Summary: | What does it mean to live “in the margins of tradition”? Many intentional Christian communities occupy this space of marginality, living on the edge of a tradition in which they feel both the need to belong and the impossibility of belonging. Marginal hermeneutics suggests that the interpretive space of “the margins” is a creative, productive, vital site of receptive and critical engagement with a tradition's enriching and distorting effects, and with our own contemporary questions and concerns. |
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| ISSN: | 1839-2598 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pacifica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1030570X9600900104 |