Misreading America: scriptures and difference
"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 comp...
Outros Autores: | |
---|---|
Tipo de documento: | Print Livro |
Idioma: | Inglês |
Serviço de pedido Subito: | Pedir agora. |
Verificar disponibilidade: | HBZ Gateway |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Publicado em: |
Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford University Press
2013
|
Em: | Ano: 2013 |
Volumes / Artigos: | Mostrar volumes / artigos. |
(Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
USA
/ Vida religiosa
/ Minoria nacional
/ Assimilação (Sociologia)
/ Leitura bíblica
/ História
|
Outras palavras-chave: | B
Ethnicity (United States)
B Coletânea de artigos B Minorities Religious life (United States) B Identification (religion) B Assimilation (Sociology) (United States) B Minorities (United States) Social conditions B United States Ethnic relations B Ethnicity Religious aspects |
Acesso em linha: |
Sumário Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) Klappentext (Verlag) |
Resumo: | "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.''"-- "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.''"-- |
---|---|
ISBN: | 0199975426 |