The gospel of Mark and other haunted places / Peter N. McLellan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLellan, Peter, author.

Series:

Biblical intersections ; Volume 20.

Biblical intersections ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Mark.

Bible.

Bible. Mark--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, New Jersey : Gorgias Press LLC, [2023]

Summary:

Euro-American biblical scholarship has traditionally conceived of the Bible in a way that removes privileged readers from personal responsibility in the subjugation of marginalized communities. Peter McLellan terms this practice gentrified biblical scholarship: readers removed from difference, because of the gentrification of space in the West, who are left without the conceptual resources to understand their relationship with the Bible as simultaneous relationship with minoritized communities. McLellan deploys the theoretical fields of hauntology and critical space theory to argue that the Gospel of Mark is a haunted place. A project written largely in New Jersey’s wealthy northern suburbs, each chapter converses with vignettes from Newark, New Jersey’s Ironbound neighborhood—a low income, largely Latinx and immigrant community—to explore relations between these two otherwise isolated locales. The result is a discussion of gentrifications harmful effects on vibrant communities, made invisible to suburban Christian readers, and an effort to explore how marginalized people make persistent demands upon those who hold Mark’s Gospel sacred.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: MARK'S GENTRIFIED READERS AND THE GHOSTS WHO HAUNT THEM

Chapter One. "You Always Have The Poor With You": Mark's Passion Narrative as a Persistently Decentering Place

Chapter Two. "Out of the Tombs" (5:1-20): An Illegitimate Alliance out of Place and out of Time

Chapter Three. "I will be Made Well": Social Death and the Contestations of the Dead (5:21-43)

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: McLellan, Peter The Gospel of Mark and Other Haunted Places

ISBN:

9781463242725

1463242727

OCLC:

1378391381