Signifying on Scriptures

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism

By: James Bielo (Editor), Brian Malley (Contribution by), Jon Bialecki (Contribution by), Erika Muse (Contribution by), Eric Hoenes Del Pinal (Contribution by)

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Hardcover | 1 September 2009

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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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Bielo's collection is a must for all serious students of Christianity. It puts forth such a simple idea, we have to wonder why it's taken so long for anthropologists to get it: we cannot understand Christianity without understanding 'the social life of Scriptures.' In their detailed analyses, the contributors here make a convincing case. -- Matthew Engelke * London School of Economics *
The essays in this collection explore the multiple contexts in which the Bible is actually read. They make a major contribution to the anthropology of Christianity and to the study of reading and interpretive practices. -- Vincent Crapanzano * author of Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench *
An intriguing collection of essays. Those who do believe that the Bible is divine revelation, but who are also willing to study its operation in quotidian real-life situations, should welcome The Social Life of Scriptures. * Books and Culture *

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Social & Cultural Aspects of Religious Groups Religion & Beliefs Christianity Biblical Studies & Exegesis Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology

Introduction: Encountering Biblicism
The Trouble with Good News
"In the Beginning"
The Man is the Head"
The Word of God and "Our Words"
How Q'eqchi'-Maya Catholics Become Legitimate Interpreters of the Bible
"We Are Anglicans, They Are the Church of England"
Chinese American Christian Women of New England
The Bones Restored to Life:
Textual Ideology, Textual Practice
Revolve, the Biblezine
Understanding the Bible's Influence
The Social Life of the Bible
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Signifying on Scriptures

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