Description: MisReading America : Scriptures and Difference, Paperback by Wimbush, Vincent L. (EDT); Reid, Lalruatkima (CON); Reid, Melissa Renee (CON), ISBN 0199975426, ISBN-13 9780199975426, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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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Book Title: MisReading America : Scriptures and Difference
Number of Pages: 326 Pages
Publication Name: Misreading America : Scriptures and Difference
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Minority Studies, Ethnic Studies / General, Sociology / General, General, Biblical Studies / History & Culture
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Author: Lalruatkima
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
