What do Christians do with the Bible? How do they--individually and
collectively--interact 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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