The Bible as a Homing Device: Two U.S. Latine Case Studies
In an earlier essay, I drew on Sara Ahmed’s formulation of a “homing device” to describe U.S. Latine uses of biblical texts and traditions, as well as “scriptures” more broadly conceived. In this essay, I hope to complicate that idea a little further. I draw on ethnographic methods and share two sto...
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MDPI AG
2025-05-01
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| Series: | Religions |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/6/696 |
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| Summary: | In an earlier essay, I drew on Sara Ahmed’s formulation of a “homing device” to describe U.S. Latine uses of biblical texts and traditions, as well as “scriptures” more broadly conceived. In this essay, I hope to complicate that idea a little further. I draw on ethnographic methods and share two stories of two people who came from the same generation and lived in geographic proximity in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California, but who represent important differences in Latine contexts. These two case studies, when read comparatively, demonstrate how the Bible serves as a homing device, as an object around which both people look for and make sense of ideas of “home”, but the understandings of home and the ways they relate to biblical texts and traditions remain quite distinct. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |