The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Biblicism (Signifying on Scriptures) - Softcover

 
9780813546063: The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Biblicism (Signifying on Scriptures)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813546060 ISBN 13: 9780813546063
Verlag: Rutgers University 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
Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813546060
ISBN 13 
9780813546063
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
Herausgeber
Bielo James S.
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