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The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism (Signifying (On) Scriptures) - Hardcover

 
9780813546056: The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism (Signifying (On) Scriptures)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0813546052 ISBN 13: 9780813546056
Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of Rutgers Univ Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

What do Christians do with the Bible? How do theyùindividually and collectivelyùinteract with the sacred texts? Why does this engagement shift so drastically among and between social, historical, religious, and institutional contexts? Such questions are addressed in a most enlightening, engaging, and original way in The Social Life of Scriptures.

Contributors offer a collection of closely analyzed and carefully conducted ethnographic and historical case studies, covering a range of geographic, theological, and cultural territory, including: American evangelicals and charismatics; Jamaican Rastafarians; evangelical and Catholic Mayans; Northern Irish charismatics; Nigerian Anglicans; and Chinese evangelicals in the United States.

The Social Life of Scriptures is the first book to present an eclectic, cross-cultural, and comparative investigation of Bible use. Moreover, it models an important movement to outline a framework for how scriptures are implicated in organizing social structures and meanings, with specific foci on gender, ethnicity, agency, and power.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James S. Bielo is a visiting assistant professor in the department of anthropology at Miami University in Ohio.

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"The Social Life of Scriptures" is the first book to present an eclectic, cross-cultural, and comparative investigation of Bible use. It models an important movement to outline a framework for how scriptures are implicated in organizing social structures and meanings, with specific foci on gender, ethnicity, agency, and power. Contributors offer a collection of closely analyzed and carefully conducted ethnographic and historical case studies, covering a range of geographic, theological, and cultural territory.

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Verlag
Univ of Chicago behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813546052
ISBN 13 
9780813546056
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
248
Herausgeber
Bielo James
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