Constructing Ethnic Identity In 1 Peter

Author : Janette H. Ok
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567698513

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Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter by Janette H. Ok Pdf

Janette H. Ok argues that 1 Peter characterizes Christian identity as an ethnic identity, as it holds the potential to engender a powerful sense of solidarity for readers who are experiencing social alienation as a result of their conversion. The epistle describes and delineates a communal identity based on Jewish traditions, and in response to the hostility its largely Gentile Anatolian addressees are experiencing as religious minorities in the Roman empire. In order to help construct a collective understanding of what it means to be a Christian in contrast to non-Christians, Ok argues that the author of the epistle employs “ethnic reasoning” or logic. Consequently, the writer of 1 Peter makes use of various literary and rhetorical strategies, including establishing a sense of shared history and ancestry, delineating boundaries, stereotyping and negatively characterizing “the other,” emphasizing distinct conduct or a common culture, and applying ethnic categories to his addressees. Ok further highlights how these strategies bear striking resemblances to what modern anthropologists and sociologists describe as the characteristics of ethnic groups. In depicting Christian identity as an ethnic identity akin to the unique religious-ethnic identity of the Jews, Ok concludes that 1 Peter seeks to foster internal cohesion among the community of believers who are struggling to forge a distinctive and durable group identity, resist external pressures to revert to a way of life unbefitting the people of God, and live as those born anew to a living hope.

Author : Katie Marcar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108841283

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Divine Regeneration and Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter by Katie Marcar Pdf

Examines how 1 Peter draws together metaphors of family, ethnicity, temple, and priesthood to describe Christian identity.

Author : Abeneazer G. Urga,Jessica A. Udall,Edward L. Smither
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645085867

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Reading 1 Peter Missiologically by Abeneazer G. Urga,Jessica A. Udall,Edward L. Smither Pdf

Gaining Fresh Insights for Missions In today’s world, the church on mission faces the immense challenge of engaging an array of cultures and ideologies. To address these issues, theologians and missiologists usually focus on Jesus and Paul. However, the Apostle Peter’s words, steeped in wisdom, are another vital link between foundational Christian truths and the complexities of our global context. For this reason, Reading 1 Peter Missiologically is a significant contribution to both biblical scholarship and mission practice. Examining 1 Peter through a missiological lens unveils the apostle’s strategic approach to cross-cultural evangelism amidst persecution and cultural diversity. It is not just an academic exercise; the authors provide practical insights for missionaries, church leaders, and theologians, helping them to contextualize the gospel in a culturally sensitive manner. This book bridges the gap between theological study and real-world application. Reading 1 Peter Missiologically is an essential resource for anyone seeking to participate in Christian outreach more effectively. It challenges readers to rethink modern missionary strategies. If you want to deepen your understanding of the Bible’s teaching on global mission and apply it across the world, this book is a must-read.

Author : Jin Young Choi,Mitzi J. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498591591

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Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity by Jin Young Choi,Mitzi J. Smith Pdf

Nonwhite women primarily appear as marginalized voices, if at all, in volumes that address constructions of race/ethnicity and early Christian texts. Employing an intersectional approach, the contributors analyze historical, cultural, literary, and ideological constructions of racial/ethnic identities, which intersect with gender/sexuality class, religion, slavery, and/or power. Given their small numbers in academic biblical studies, this book represents a critical mass of nonwhite women scholars and offers a critique of dominant knowledge production. Filling a significant epistemological gap, this seminal text provides provocative, innovative, and critical insights into constructions of race/ethnicity in ancient and modern texts and contexts.

Author : David G. Horrell
Publisher : Eerdmans
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802876080

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Ethnicity and Inclusion by David G. Horrell Pdf

"A study of ethnic identity construction in Christianity and Judaism focused on New Testament texts"--

Author : David G. Horrell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567423825

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Becoming Christian by David G. Horrell Pdf

Becoming Christian examines various facets of the first letter of Peter, in its social and historical setting, in some cases using new social-scientific and postcolonial methods to shed light on the ways in which the letter contributes to the making of Christian identity. At the heart of the book chapters 5-7, examine the contribution of 1 Peter to the construction of Christian identity, the persecution and suffering of Christians in Asia Minor, the significance of the name 'Christian', and the response of the letter to the hostility encountered by Christians in society. There are no recent books which bring together such a wealth of information and analysis of this crucial early Christian text. Becoming Christian has developed out of Horrell's ongoing research for the International Critical Commentary on 1 Peter. Together these chapters offer a series of significant and original engagements with this letter, and a resource for studies of 1 Peter for some time to come.

Author : Jennifer T. Kaalund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : 0567679993

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Reading Hebrews and 1 Peter with the African American Great Migration by Jennifer T. Kaalund Pdf

"Kaalund examines the constructed and contested Christian-Jewish identities in Hebrews and 1 Peter through the lens of the 'New Negro,' a diasporic identity similarly constructed and contested during the Great Migration in the early 20th century. Like the identity 'Christian,' the New Negro emerged in a context marked by instability, creativity, and the need for a sense of permanence in a hostile political environment. Upon examination, both identities also show complex internal diversity and debate that disrupts any simple articulation as purely resistant (or accommodating) to its hegemonic and oppressive environment. Kaalund's investigation into the construction of the New Negro highlights this multiplicity and contends that the rhetoric of place, race, and gender were integral to these processes of inventing a way of being in the world that was seemingly not reliant on one's physical space. Putting these issues into dialogue with 1 Peter and Hebrews allows for a reading of the formation of Christian identity as similarly engaging the rhetoric of place and race in constructive and contested ways."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Paul R. Spickard,W. Jeffrey Burroughs
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1566397235

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We are a People by Paul R. Spickard,W. Jeffrey Burroughs Pdf

As the twentieth century closes, ethnicity stands out as a powerful force for binding people together in a sense of shared origins and worldview. But this emphasis on a people's uniqueness can also develop into a distorted rationale for insularity, inter-ethnic animosity, or, as we have seen in this century, armed conflict. Ethnic identity clearly holds very real consequences for individuals and peoples, yet there is not much agreement on what exactly it is or how it is formed. The growing recognition that ethnicity is not fixed and inherent, but elastic and constructed, fuels the essays in this collection. Regarding identity as a dynamic, on-going, formative and transformative process,We Are a Peopleconsiders narrative—the creation and maintenance of a common story—as the keystone in building a sense of peoplehood. Myths of origin, triumph over adversity, migration, and so forth, chart a group's history, while continual additions to the larger narrative stress moving into the future as a people. Still, there is more to our stories as individuals and groups. Most of us are aware that we take on different roles and project different aspects of ourselves depending on the situation. Some individuals who have inherited multiple group affiliations from their families view themselves not as this or that but all at once. So too with ethnic groups. The so-called hyphenated Americans are not the only people in the world to recognize or embrace their plurality. This relatively recent acknowledgment of multiplicity has potentially wide implications, destabilizing the limited (and limiting) categories inscribed in, for example, public policy and discourse on race relations.We Are a Peopleis a path-breaking volume, boldly illustrating how ethnic identity works in the real world. Author note:Paul Spickardis Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara and is author ofMixed Blood.W. Jeffrey Burroughsis Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University, Hawaii.

Author : Dewi Hughes
Publisher : William Carey Library Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0878084592

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Ethnic Identity from the Margins by Dewi Hughes Pdf

In most people's minds "ethnic" or "ethnicity" are terms associated with conflict, cleansing, or even genocide. This book explores--from three perspectives--the significance of ethnic communities beyond these popular conceptions. The first perspective is the reality of the author's own experience as a member of the Welsh ethnic identity. The Welsh are a small people whose whole existence has been overshadowed by the more powerful English. This is the "margin" from which the author speaks. The second perspective is the Bible and evangelical mission and the third is the unprecedented movement and mixing of ethnic identities in our globalizing world. The book ends with the section on ethnicity in the Lausanne Commitment that, hopefully, marks the beginning of serious consideration by the evangelical missions community of this issue that deeply impacts the lives of many millions.

Author : Esau McCaulley,Janette H. Ok,Osvaldo Padilla,Amy L. B. Peeler
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830818297

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The New Testament in Color by Esau McCaulley,Janette H. Ok,Osvaldo Padilla,Amy L. B. Peeler Pdf

In this one-volume commentary, a multiethnic team of scholars holding orthodox Christian beliefs brings exegetical expertise coupled with a unique interpretive lens to illuminate the ways social location and biblical interpretation work together. These diverse scholars offer a better vantage point for both the academy and the church.

Author : David G. Horrell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467459709

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Ethnicity and Inclusion by David G. Horrell Pdf

Some of today’s problematic ideologies of racial and religious difference can be traced back to constructions of the relationship between Judaism and early Christianity. New Testament studies, which developed contemporaneously with Europe’s colonial expansion and racial ideologies, is, David Horrell argues, therefore an important site at which to probe critically these ideological constructions and their contemporary implications. In Ethnicity and Inclusion, Horrell explores the ways in which “ethnic” (and “religious”) characteristics feature in key Jewish and early Christian texts, challenging the widely accepted dichotomy between a Judaism that is ethnically defined and a Christianity that is open and inclusive. Then, through an engagement with whiteness studies, he offers a critique of the implicit whiteness and Christianness that continue to dominate New Testament studies today, arguing that a diversity of embodied perspectives is epistemologically necessary.

Author : Philip A. Harland
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567111463

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Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians by Philip A. Harland Pdf

This study sheds new light on identity formation and maintenance in the world of the early Christians by drawing on neglected archaeological and epigraphic evidence concerning associations and immigrant groups and by incorporating insights from the social sciences. The study's unique contribution relates, in part, to its interdisciplinary character, standing at the intersection of Christian Origins, Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, and the Social Sciences. It also breaks new ground in its thoroughly comparative framework, giving the Greek and Roman evidence its due, not as mere background but as an integral factor in understanding dynamics of identity among early Christians. This makes the work particularly well suited as a text for courses that aim to understand early Christian groups and literature, including the New Testament, in relation to their Greek, Roman, and Judean contexts. Inscriptions pertaining to associations provide a new angle of vision on the ways in which members in Christian congregations and Jewish synagogues experienced belonging and expressed their identities within the Greco-Roman world. The many other groups of immigrants throughout the cities of the empire provide a particularly appropriate framework for understanding both synagogues of Judeans and groups of Jesus-followers as minority cultural groups in these same contexts. Moreover, there were both shared means of expressing identity (including fictive familial metaphors) and peculiarities in the case of both Jews and Christians as minority cultural groups, who (like other "foreigners") were sometimes characterized as dangerous, alien "anti-associations". By paying close attention to dynamics of identity and belonging within associations and cultural minority groups, we can gain new insights into Pauline, Johannine, and other early Christian communities.

Author : Ralph R. Premdas
Publisher : University of the West Indies (Kingston)
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173011979584

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Identity, Ethnicity and Culture in the Caribbean by Ralph R. Premdas Pdf

" This volume pulls together an interesting collection of essays on culture, ethnicity and identity. Some contributors have focused on calypso, popular music, and carnival as sites of inter- ethnic rivalry in the context of forging a national identity in a global setting. Others have examined the role of competitive elections, jobs in the public service,schools, mixed marriages and dancing as arenas of culture conflict and power quest" -- Book cover.

Author : Danièle Joly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015019806911

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Making a Place for Islam in British Society by Danièle Joly Pdf

Author : Prince Brown
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063288596

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The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States by Prince Brown Pdf

This groundbreaking collection of classic and cutting edge sociological research gives special attention to the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. It offers an in-depth and eye-opening analysis of (a) the power of racial classification to shape our understanding of race and race relations, (b) the way in which the system came into being and remains, and (c) the real consequences this system has on life chances. The readings deal with five major themes: the personal experience of classification schemes; classifying people by race; ethnic classification; the persistence, functions, and consequences of social classification; and a new paradigm: transcending categories. For individuals who want to gain a fuller understanding of the impact the ideas of race has on a society that is consumed by it.