Overview

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.''

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Author:   Lalruatkima ,  Melissa Renee Reid ,  Vincent L. Wimbush
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.438kg
ISBN:  

9780199975426

ISBN 10:   0199975426
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   08 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

Wimbush s introduction makes important contributions to the theoretical base for a growing number of projects describing the ways that minoritized groups and individuals have read Scripture. The book s five studies offer rich displays of the agency of minoritized readers. --Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

Author Information

Vincent L. Wimbush is Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures at Claremont Graduate University.

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