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MisReading America - Scriptures and Difference (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,841
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MisReading America - Scriptures and Difference (Hardcover): Vincent L. Wimbush, Lalruatkima, Melissa Renee Reid

MisReading America - Scriptures and Difference (Hardcover)

Vincent L. Wimbush, Lalruatkima, Melissa Renee Reid

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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.''

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2013
First published: August 2013
Editors: Vincent L. Wimbush (Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures) • Lalruatkima (PhD candidate) • Melissa Renee Reid (PhD candidate)
Dimensions: 239 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-997541-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
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LSN: 0-19-997541-8
Barcode: 9780199975419

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