Misreading America: scriptures and difference

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This collection of ethnographic essays illuminates the 'reading' of the United States of America as a scriptural formation by focusing on the scripturalizing practices of peoples of color. Through the uses of 'scriptures' (broadly defined) majoritarian readings have long (over)determined the nation-its origins, historical development, diversification, cultural boundaries values, textures, and representations. The result is a scriptural formation that functions as a reading formation with a fixe…

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Full title :Misreading America : scriptures and difference / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush with the assistance of Lalruatkima and Melissa Renee Reid.

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Publication Date:2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013

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Description:1 online resource (xii, 311 pages .)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199346158, 0199346151
oclc:ocn866592863
LC Classification:BL65.E75
Dewey Decimal:277.30089

Machine generated contents note: -- 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) -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Assimilation (Sociologie) -- États-Unis Assimilation (Sociology) Assimilation (Sociology) -- United Stat… États-Unis -- Relations interethniques Ethnic relations Ethnicité -- Aspect religieux Ethnicité -- États-Unis Ethnicity Ethnicity -- Religious aspects Ethnicity -- United States Identification (Religion) Minorities -- Religious life Minorities -- Religious life -- United … Minorities -- Social conditions Minorities -- Social conditions. -- Uni… RELIGION -- Biblical Studies RELIGION -- Christianity SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies United States United States -- Ethnic relations