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

EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online

EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)

eBook Diversity & Ethnic Studies Collection Available online

eBook Diversity & Ethnic Studies Collection
Format:
Book
Contributor:
Wimbush, Vincent L.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ethnicity--Religious aspects.
Ethnicity.
Ethnicity--United States.
Identification (Religion).
Minorities--Religious life--United States.
Minorities.
Minorities--United States--Social conditions.
Assimilation (Sociology)--United States.
Assimilation (Sociology).
United States--Ethnic relations.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (326 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
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.
Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""INTRODUCTION: Knowing Ex-centrics/Ex-centric Knowing""; ""CHAPTER 1 Native Evangelicals and Scriptural Ethnologies""; ""CHAPTER 2 Scriptures as Sundials in African American Lives""; ""CHAPTER 3 Reading the Word in America: US Latino/a Religious Communities and Their Scriptures""; ""CHAPTER 4 Asian Americans, Bible Believers: An Ethnological Study""; ""CHAPTER 5 Maronite Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Sunni Muslims from the Arab Region: Between Empire, Racialization, and Assimilation""
""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)""; ""Appendix 3 Chapter 5 Interviewee List (with Pseudonyms)""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-19-997733-X
OCLC:
922972269

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