The Social Life of Scriptures : : Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism / / ed. by James Bielo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baron, Akesha,; Bialecki, Jon,; Bielo, James S.,; Coleman, Simon,; Harding, Susan,; Hoenes Del Pinal, Eric,; Malley, Brian,; Murphy, Liam D.,; Murphy, Liam,; Muse, Erika A.,; Muse, Erika,; Pinal, Eric Hoenes Del,; Pulis, John W.,; Pulis, John,; Rodman, Rosamond C.,; Rodman, Rosamond,; Samson, C. Mathews,; Samson, C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bielo, James,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Signifying on Scriptures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Encountering Biblicism -- 1. The Trouble with Good News: Scripture and Charisma in Northern Ireland -- 2. “In the Beginning”: A Chapter from the Living Testament of Rastafari -- 3. “The Man Is the Head”: Evangelical Discourse and the Construction of Masculinities in a Tzotzil Village -- 4. The Word of God and “Our Words”: The Bible and Translation in a Mam Maya Context -- 5. How Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholics Become Legitimate Interpreters of the Bible: Two Models of Religious Authority in Sermons -- 6. “We Are Anglicans, They Are the Church of England”: Uses of Scripture in the Anglican Crisis -- 7. Chinese American Christian Women of New England: Transformation and Continuity in Inter-Generational Narratives of Living in Christ -- 8. The Bones Restored to Life: Dialogue and Dissemination in the Vineyard’s Dialectic of Text and Presence -- 9. Textual Ideology, Textual Practice: Evangelical Bible Reading in Group Study -- 10. Revolve, the Biblezine: A Transevangelical Text -- 11 .Understanding the Bible’s Influence -- 12. The Social Life of the Bible -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index