The Bible and the American myth : a symposium on the Bible and constructions of meaning - Wimbush, Vincent L. (Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 1999)
Series Editor's Preface / Charles Mabee -- Introduction. And the Students Shall Teach Them ... The Study of the Bible and the Study of Meaning Construction / Vincent L. Wimbush -- 1. The American Way and the Good Red Road. American Indians, the Christian Right, and the (De)Construction of American Religion / Andrea Smith -- 2. "It's a Small World ..." Abraham Lincoln, the New American Myth, and the Biblical Rhetoric of Unity / Harold Rhee -- 3. Charles Augustus Briggs, Modernism, and the Rise of Biblical Scholarship in Nineteenth-Century America / Doug Hill -- 4. The Body as Reader. African-Americans, Freedom, and the American Myth / Kimberleigh Jordan -- 5. Children of the American Myth. David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the American Bible / David Saul -- 6. Heaven's Gate. Religious Outworldliness American Style / Rosamond Rodman -- 7. Coda. American Biblical Hermeneutics. Personal Observations on the Liquification of Biblical Studies / Charles Mabee.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-188) and indexes.
Keywords: Bible -- Influence -- Congresses; Bible -- Use -- Congresses; United States -- Civilization -- Congresses