Book

Reading the Bible from the Margins

De La Torre, Miguel A. · 2002

Sequence ladder

Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.

Themebody under male gazereligious dress codeself-surveillanceeighty years old in heavy skirts in summer

Context2002lived_experience

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

Scripture reads differently — and more honestly — when interpreted from the underside of power rather than its center.

Sex: Present
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

obedience-and-authorityself-and-identityfaith-and-doubt

obedience-and-authority

Women are very careful about the way they dress — skirts to the ankle, baggy tops — so as not to tempt the men.
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self-and-identity

Without much thought she quickly responded, 'So as not to tempt the men' — her body policed into invisibility by doctrine she had fully internalized.
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faith-and-doubt

In many northeastern Pentecostal churches, women conceal the upper curves of the female body — piety expressed as the erasure of self.
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1 published passage · book excerpt · lived experience

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