The Social Life of Scriptures : : Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism /

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

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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, an...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2
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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

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