The Bible and American LGBT Interpretation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa J. Hornsby
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Organizations ◽  
Bible Translation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship

This chapter gives an overview of the roots of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual/transgendered (LGBT) interpretation in the United States. Much of this hermeneutic is tied to various schools of interpretative thought including historical critical, modernist, popular, postmodern, and queer theory. The hermeneutic can also be tied to centuries of Bible translation choices, focusing on certain words and phrases that have become central to much larger interpretative debates. The chapter also gives brief synopses of groundbreaking work in the field of LGBT hermeneutics and the seminal publications in the discipline. It concludes with an overview of the presence of LGBT biblical scholarship in the primary academic organizations.

Material World: Gender and the Bible in Evangelical Purity Culture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Moslener
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young People ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Material World ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The Bible

For evangelical adolescents living in the United States, the material world of commerce and sexuality is fraught with danger. Contemporary movements urge young people to embrace sexual purity and abstinence before marriage and eschew the secular pressures of modern life. And yet, the sacred text that is used to authorize these teachings betrays evangelicals’ long-standing ability to embrace the material world for spiritual purposes. Bibles marketed to teenage girls, including those produced by and for sexual purity campaigns, make use of prevailing trends in bible marketing. By packaging the message of sexual purity and traditional gender roles into a sleek modern day apparatus, American evangelicals present female sexual restraint as the avant-garde of contemporary, evangelical orthodoxy.

“In the Bible Belt:” The role of religion in HIV care and prevention for transgender people in the United States South

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 102613
Author(s):  
Darius Scott ◽  
Nastacia M. Pereira ◽  
Sayward E. Harrison ◽  
Meagan Zarwell ◽  
Kamla Sanasi-Bhola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hiv Care ◽  
Bible Belt ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
United States South ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Role Of Religion

The World of the Bible—Always Strange, Forever New

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
Joseph D. Small
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
University Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Productive Author ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Reflections

Abstract Although Markus Barth was a productive author and is known widely through his published written work, he was also, for many decades, a teacher of formative importance for generations of seminary and university students in both the United States and Switzerland. This essay shares personal reflections on Markus Barth’s profile as a biblical and theological educator and thereby introduces readers to something of his influential personal and theological style.

The Sixth Partition of Poland

1945 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-155
Author(s):  
Oscar Halecki
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
George Washington ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
Fig Tree

In 1798, three years after the third partition of Poland, George Washington wrote to a friend of Thaddeus Kosciuszko: “That your country is not as happy as her efforts were patriotic and noble, is a misfortune which all the lovers of sensible liberty and rights of men deeply deplore; and were my prayers during that hard struggle of any good, you would be now under your own vine and fig tree, to quote the Bible, as happy in the enjoyments of these desirable blessings as the people of these United States enjoy theirs.” These words of the first President of the United States are the best possible introduction to this article written in 1945, on Washington's birthday.

Infant Care: The United States Government Guide, Supplements and Annotations, by Frederick W. Goodrich, Jr., M.D. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968, 230 pp., $4.50

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-151
Author(s):  
Joel J. Alpert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Infant Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
The Bible ◽  
States Government

Infant Care, with 50 million copies distributed, rivals the Bible and Dr. Spock as a bestseller and is a "significant and up-to-date aid for parents eager to start their baby on a healthy, happy life." It is written well and easy to read. It can be reassuring to a parent. It is so good that those areas where the authors have not found the middle ground stand out sharply. For example, if the intent is to relax the parent, it is disappointing to see the suggestion made "to pop the baby on the scales every day or so."

American Evangelicalism in Hypermodernity

2020 ◽  
pp. 230-250
Author(s):  
Brad Vermurlen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Preceding Argument ◽  
American Evangelicalism

The concluding chapter takes stock of what the preceding argument entails for American Evangelicalism today. It begins with evaluations from Evangelical leaders themselves about the state and health, or lack thereof, of Evangelicalism in the United States. It then addresses two frequently asked questions: “What’s new about the New Calvinism?” and “What are the boundaries of the Evangelical field?” Not able to identify any definitive boundaries, the chapter moves on to an exploration of what Evangelicalism in the United States centers on (the Bible? Jesus? The Gospel? Mission? Politics?). As with boundaries, it is argued this religious tradition lacks any coherent, agreed-upon, substantive center. American Evangelicalism is increasingly fragmented and incoherent. The chapter—and the book—ends by suggesting a new vision of secularization not as declining belief or practice but as dissolution or “cultural entropy,” a process by which an entire religious cultural system falls apart.

The Bible in African American Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
The Bible ◽  
African Descendants ◽  
King James Bible ◽  
British Colonies

The chapter explores the motivations for the use of the Christian Bible in distinctive temporal arcs within African American culture. Initially, the chapter acknowledges the oddity of an African American affinity with the Bible because that Bible was deployed to support the enslavement and perpetual exploitation of African descendants in the British colonies that later became the United States. Then, it articulates three reasons for the aforementioned affinity: the availability of the Bible (especially the King James Bible) to provide a language world for personal and collective expression; the versatility or pliability of the Bible in the imagination of African Americans as they repeatedly and creatively read their own identities through the struggles of the characters of the Bible; and the perceived persuasiveness of the Bible in some of the heated debates with which the larger US public has been engaged since its inception.

The American Children’s Bible

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell W. Dalton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The United States ◽  
Biblical Literacy ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Us History ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Religious Publications ◽  
Formative Experiences ◽  
Bible Stories

Children’s Bibles have been among the most popular and influential types of religious publications in the United States, providing many Americans with their first formative experiences of the Bible and its stories. This chapter explores the variety of ways in which children’s Bibles have adapted, illustrated, and retold Bible stories for children throughout US history. Children’s Bibles served a variety of ends, such as teaching biblical literacy, instilling a fear and respect for God’s power and judgment, calling children to salvation in Jesus Christ, modeling moral virtues, and reframing Bible stories as fun and engaging stories that portray a friendly God who cares for children.

scholarly journals Use of Prayer as Complementary Therapy by Christian Adults in the Bible Belt of the United States

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Robbie South ◽  
Liz McDowell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Complementary Therapy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Bible Belt ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People

Persons of all major religious groups use prayer as a spiritual discipline when dealing with sickness, and a majority of Christians report faith in healing prayer. The purpose of this research was to explore the use of prayer as complementary therapy for healing by Christian adults in the Bible Belt of the United States. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used in this qualitative study. This project was a secondary analysis of a larger study whose aim was to document stories of miraculous healings (n = 14). Open-ended questions focusing on participants’ use of prayer followed the initial telling of their stories. All participants used prayer as complementary to their traditional medical treatments, and emerging themes included prayers of the people, rituals and traditions associated with prayer, prayers of supplication, and experiences related to the act of praying. These findings support prior published studies regarding the prevalence of prayer and its use as complementary therapy. Participants commonly used prayer in times of illness and the effects of prayer included a sense of wellbeing, increased calmness, decreased anxiety, and positive healing experiences. Participants utilized self-prayer and prayer support from family, friends, clergy, and healthcare professionals.

Reckoning with Race and Performing the Good News

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-54
Author(s):  
Vincent E. Bacote
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Good News ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Good For ◽  
Ready To Learn ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Evangelical Movement ◽  
Evangelical Theology

Abstract The “good news” is central to evangelical theology and the movement known as evangelicalism, but the news has not always been good for minorities who inhabit evangelical communities and institutions in the United States. Vincent Bacote argues a reckoning with questions of race is necessary for evangelical theology to help cultivate an evangelical movement more hospitable to minorities, particularly African-Americans. Evangelicalism is here regarded not only as a set of beliefs about the Bible, Christ’s work on the cross, conversion and witness but also as a set of dispositions and postures that create openness to the concerns of minorities. With a perpetually uneasy conscience, Christians within the evangelical movement can cultivate a disposition ready to learn from the questions and contributions of minorities in evangelical spaces, such as William Bentley and Carl Ellis. A better evangelical theology is proposed as doctrines that yield actions that are truly good news for all.

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