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The Bible in American life
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- Creator
- edited by Philip Goff, Arthur E. Farnsley II, Peter J. Thuesen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780190468910, 0190468912, 9780190468927, 0190468920, 9780190468934
- OCLC
- ocn949911931
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The Bible in American life today / Philip Goff, Arthur E. Farnsley II, and Peter Thuesen -- America's first Bible : native uses, abuses, and reuses of the Indian Bible of 1663 / Linford D. Fisher -- The debate over prophetic evidence for the authority of the Bible in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana / Jan Stievermann -- Navigating the loss of interpretive innocence : reading the "Enlightenment" Bible in early modern America / Robert E. Brown -- Reading the Bible in a Romantic era / Beth Barton Schweiger -- The origins of whiteness and the Black (biblical) imagination : the Bible in the "slave narrative" tradition / Emerson B. Powery -- Biblical women in the woman's exponent : nineteenth-century Mormon women interpret the Bible / Amy Easton-Flake -- Scriptualizing religion and ethnicity : the Circle Seven Koran / Sylvester A. Johnson -- Reading the Bible in war and crisis to know the future / Matthew Avery Sutton -- Reference Bibles and interpretive authority / B.M. Pietsch -- The soul's train : the Bible and southern folk and popular music / Paul Harvey -- Where two or three are gathered : the adult Bible class movement and the social life of Scripture / Christopher D. Cantwell -- "Thy Word is true" : King James onlyism and the quest for certainty in American evangelical life / Jason A. Hentschel -- Selling trust : the Living Bible and the business of biblicism / Daniel Vaca -- The Bible and the legacy of first wave feminism / Claudia Setzer -- Let us be attentive : the Orthodox Study Bible, converts, and the debate on orthodox lay uses of Scripture / Garrett Spivey -- The continuing distinctive role of the Bible in American lives : a comparative analysis / Corwin E. Smidt -- Emerging trends in American children's Bibles, 1990-2015 / Russell W. Dalton -- The curious case of the Christian Bible and the U.S. Constitution : challenges for educators teaching the Bible in a multi-religious context / John F. Kutsko -- Transforming practice : American Bible reading in digital culture / John B. Weaver -- Readers and their e-Bibles : the shape and authority of the hypertext canon / Bryan Bibb -- How American women and men read the Bible / Amanda Friesen -- Feels right exegesis : qualitative research on how millennials read the Bible / J. Derrick Lemons -- Crowning the King : the use of production and reception studies to determine the most popular English-language Bible translation in contemporary America / Paul C. Gutjahr -- Literalism as creativity : making a creationist theme park, reassessing a scriptural ideology / James S. Bielo -- The Bible in the evangelical imagination / Daniel Silliman -- Feeling the word : sensing Scripture at Salvation Mountain / Sara M. Patterson -- The Bible : then and now / Mark Noll
Subjects
- Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- United States.
- Bible -- Study and teaching -- United States.
- Bible -- Reading -- United States.
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- United States.
- Bible -- Influence.
- Religion and culture -- United States.
- Religion and politics -- United States.
- United States -- Religion.