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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
- 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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