RT Book
T1 Misreading America: scriptures and difference
A2 Wimbush, Vincent L. 1954-
LA English
PP Oxford u.a.
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/747524122
AB "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. Scriptures here are understood and 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.''"--
AB "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.''"--
CN BL65.E75
SN 9780199975426
SN 9780199975419
K1 Ethnicity : Religious aspects
K1 Ethnicity : United States
K1 Identification (religion)
K1 Minorities : Religious life : United States
K1 Minorities : United States : Social conditions
K1 Assimilation (Sociology) : United States
K1 United States : Ethnic relations
K1 Aufsatzsammlung