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...

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Outros Autores: Wimbush, Vincent L. 1954- (Editor)
Tipo de documento: Print Livro
Idioma:Inglês
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Publicado em: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford University Press 2013
Em:Ano: 2013
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(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
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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