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Theorizing Scriptures : new critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush.

Contributor(s): Wimbush, Vincent L
Material type: TextTextSeries: Signifying (on) Scriptures: Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780813542041 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0813542049 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Sacred books -- History and criticismDDC classification: 208/.2 LOC classification: BL71 | .T49 2008Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Charles H. Long -- Introduction : TEXTureS, gestures, power : orientation to radical excavation / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Scriptures : text and then some / Catherine Bell -- Signifying revelation in Islam / Tazim R. Kassam -- Scriptures and the nature of authority : the case of the Guru Granth in Sikh tradition / Gurinder Singh Mann -- Dynamics of scripturalization : the ancient Near East / Hugh R. Page Jr. -- Known knowns and unknown unknowns : scriptures and scriptural interpretations / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- Signifying scriptures in Confucianism / Yan Shoucheng -- Confessions of Nat Turner : memoir of a martyr or testament of a terrorist? / William L. Andrews -- Signifying scriptures from an African perspective / Oyeronke Olajubu -- Transforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation : scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India / Sathianathan Clarke -- Signification as scripturalization : communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization / Sze-kar Wan -- Conjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions / Yvonne P. Chireau -- Visualizing scriptures / Colleen McDannell -- Signifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music / Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje --
Signifying proverbs : Menace II Society / Erin Runions -- Scriptures beyond script : some African diasporic occasions / Grey Gundaker -- Texture, text, and testament : reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture / Leslie King-Hammond -- Differences at play in the fields of the lord / Susan F. Harding -- American Samson : biblical reading and national origins / Laura E. Donaldson -- Against signifying : psychosocial needs and natural evil / Leonard Harris -- Orality, memory, and power : Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India / Patrick Olivelle -- Reading places/reading scriptures / Wesley A. Kort -- Taniwha and serpent : a trans-Tasman riff / Jo Diamond -- Scriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing / José Rabasa -- In Hoc Signum Vincent : a Midrashist replies / Burton L. Visotzky -- Powerful words : the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Racial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge : cautionary notes on "scripture" / Joseph Parker -- Who needs the subaltern? / Ranu Samantrai.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL71 .T49 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903168496

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Charles H. Long -- Introduction : TEXTureS, gestures, power : orientation to radical excavation / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Scriptures : text and then some / Catherine Bell -- Signifying revelation in Islam / Tazim R. Kassam -- Scriptures and the nature of authority : the case of the Guru Granth in Sikh tradition / Gurinder Singh Mann -- Dynamics of scripturalization : the ancient Near East / Hugh R. Page Jr. -- Known knowns and unknown unknowns : scriptures and scriptural interpretations / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- Signifying scriptures in Confucianism / Yan Shoucheng -- Confessions of Nat Turner : memoir of a martyr or testament of a terrorist? / William L. Andrews -- Signifying scriptures from an African perspective / Oyeronke Olajubu -- Transforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation : scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India / Sathianathan Clarke -- Signification as scripturalization : communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization / Sze-kar Wan -- Conjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions / Yvonne P. Chireau -- Visualizing scriptures / Colleen McDannell -- Signifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music / Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje --

Signifying proverbs : Menace II Society / Erin Runions -- Scriptures beyond script : some African diasporic occasions / Grey Gundaker -- Texture, text, and testament : reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture / Leslie King-Hammond -- Differences at play in the fields of the lord / Susan F. Harding -- American Samson : biblical reading and national origins / Laura E. Donaldson -- Against signifying : psychosocial needs and natural evil / Leonard Harris -- Orality, memory, and power : Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India / Patrick Olivelle -- Reading places/reading scriptures / Wesley A. Kort -- Taniwha and serpent : a trans-Tasman riff / Jo Diamond -- Scriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing / José Rabasa -- In Hoc Signum Vincent : a Midrashist replies / Burton L. Visotzky -- Powerful words : the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Racial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge : cautionary notes on "scripture" / Joseph Parker -- Who needs the subaltern? / Ranu Samantrai.

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