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

The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Country
United States
Published
1 September 2009
Pages
272
ISBN
9780813546056

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

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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