1. The Trouble with Good News: Scripture and Charisma in Northern Ireland

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Encountering Biblicism 1
5. 1. The Trouble with Good News: Scripture and Charisma in Northern Ireland 10
6. 2. “In the Beginning”: A Chapter from the Living Testament of Rastafari 30
7. 3. “The Man Is the Head”: Evangelical Discourse and the Construction of Masculinities in a Tzotzil Village 44
8. 4. The Word of God and “Our Words”: The Bible and Translation in a Mam Maya Context 64
9. 5. How Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholics Become Legitimate Interpreters of the Bible: Two Models of Religious Authority in Sermons 80
10. 6. “We Are Anglicans, They Are the Church of England”: Uses of Scripture in the Anglican Crisis 100
11. 7. Chinese American Christian Women of New England: Transformation and Continuity in Inter-Generational Narratives of Living in Christ 114
12. 8. The Bones Restored to Life: Dialogue and Dissemination in the Vineyard’s Dialectic of Text and Presence 136
13. 9. Textual Ideology, Textual Practice: Evangelical Bible Reading in Group Study 157
14. 10. Revolve, the Biblezine: A Transevangelical Text 176
15. 11 .Understanding the Bible’s Influence 194
16. 12. The Social Life of the Bible 205
17. References 213
18. Notes on Contributors 231
19. Index 235