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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"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.''"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"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.''"-- Provided by publisher. |
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""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"" |
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""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"" |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Ethnicity -- Religious aspects.
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Ethnicity -- Religious aspects. |
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Ethnicity -- United States.
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Ethnicity. |
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United States. |
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Identification (Religion)
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Identification (Religion) |
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Minorities -- Religious life -- United States.
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Minorities -- Religious life. |
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Minorities. |
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Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Assimilation (Sociology) -- United States.
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Assimilation (Sociology) |
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wimbush, Vincent L.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Misreading America. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013 9780199975426 (DLC) 2013012868 (OCoLC)837146564 |
| ISBN |
9780199977338 (electronic book) |
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019997733X (electronic book) |
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9781299687776 (e-book) |
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1299687776 (e-book) |
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9780199346158 (electronic book) |
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0199346151 (electronic book) |
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9780199975426 (paperback) |
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0199975426 (paperback) |
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9780199975419 (print) |
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0199975418 (print) |
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