The social life of Scriptures [[electronic resource] ] : cross-cultural perspectives on biblicism / / edited by James S. Bielo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456574803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-8135-4841-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Collana: Signifying (on) Scriptures
• Altri autori (Persone): BieloJames S
• Disciplina: 220.09
• Soggetti: Christian sociology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This volume originated as an organized conference session at the 2006 American Anthropological Association Meetings in San Jose, California"--P. vii.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Encountering biblicism / James S. Bielo -- The trouble with good news : Scripture and charisma in Northern Ireland / Liam D. Murphy -- "In the beginning" : a chapter from the living testament of Rastafari / John W. Pulis -- "The man is the head" : evangelical discourse and the construction of masculinities in a Tzotzil village / Akesha Baron -- The Word of God and "our words" : the Bible and translation in a Mam Maya conext / C. Mathews Samson -- How Q'eqchi'-Maya Catholics become legitimate interpreters of the Bible : two models of religious authority in sermons / Eric Hoenes del Pinal -- "We are Anglicans, they are the Church of England" : uses of Scripture in the Anglican crisis / Rosamond C. Rodman -- Chinese American Christian women of New England : transformation and continuity in inter-generational narratives of living in Christ / Erika A. Muse -- The bones restored to life : dialogue and dissemination in the Vineyard's dialectic of text and presence / Jon Bialecki -- Textual ideology, textual practice : evangelical Bible reading in group study / James S. Bielo -- Revolve, the bibelzine : a transevangelical text / Susan Harding -- Understanding the Bible's influence / Brian Malley -- The social life of the Bible / Simon Coleman.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.

American literature before 1880 / / Robert Lawson-Peebles

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463729603321
• Autore: Lawson-Peebles Robert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-138-43663-1; 1-315-83627-0; 1-317-87038-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Collana: Longman Literature In English Series
• Disciplina: 810.9/001
• Soggetti: American literature - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Dedication; 1 The Problem of American Literature; The case of Paul De Man; James, Hawthorne, and the problem; The difficulty of American literary history; American exceptionalism; Songs of the earth's edge; 2 A ProtoAmerican ; Literature, 800 BC to 1611; Beyond Atlantis; Viking settlement; The oriental impact; The Columbian complex; To the Virginian voyage; 3 From Settlement to Revolution, 1607-1783; Virginia and the naming of New England; The varieties of writing in New England; The rising empireThe fall of the British American empire; 4 The New Republic, 1776-1826; The age of Paine; Writing in a vacuum; Experiment and failure: Charles Brockden Brown; Transatlantic domesticity; Transatlantic difficulties: the early work of James Fenimore Cooper; 5 Growth and Identity, 1812-1865; Transatlantic trifles; Fenimore Cooper and the follies of democracy; Yankee attitudes; Explorations of identity: Hawthorne; Explorations of identity: the fiction of Melville; The nation in flux: Edgar Allan Poe; Disunion and Civil War; 6 Prospects for the Great Republic, 1865-1880; Battle-pieces: the aftermath of warThe local and the universal; E Pluribus Unum; A complex fate; Chronology; General Bibliographies; General histories/handbooks of America and its literature; Definitions of America and its literature; Thematic studies; Period studies; Individual Authors; Index; Longman Literature in English Series
• Sommario/riassunto: American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intende