Theorizing Scriptures  new critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Vincent L. Wimbush. 
 - New Brunswick, N.J. :  Rutgers University Press,  c2008. 
 - xii, 310 p. :  ill. 
 - Signifying (on) Scriptures .
 - Signifying (on) Scriptures. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index. 
<br/><br/> TEXTureS, gestures, power: orientation to radical excavation /  Scriptures: text and then some /  Signifying revelation in Islam /  Scriptures and the nature of authority: the case of the Guru Granth in Sikh tradition /  Dynamics of scripturalization: the ancient Near East /  Known knowns and unknown unknowns: scriptures and scriptural interpretations /  Signifying scriptures in Confucianism /  Confessions of Nat Turner: memoir of a martyr or testament of a terrorist? /  Signifying scriptures from an African perspective /  Transforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation: scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India /  Signification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization /  Conjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions /  Visualizing scriptures /  Signifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music /  Signifying proverbs: Menace II society /  Scriptures beyond script: some African diasporic occasions /  Texture, text, and testament: reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture /  Differences at play in the fields of the lord /  American Samson: biblical reading and national origins /  Against signifying: psychosocial needs and natural evil /  Orality, memory, and power: Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India /  Reading places/reading scriptures /  Taniwha and serpent: a trans-Tasman riff /  Scriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing /  In Hoc Signum Vincent: a Midrashist replies /  Powerful words: the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project /  Racial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge: cautionary notes on "scripture" /  Who needs the subaltern? /  Vincent L. Wimbush --  Catherine Bell --  Tazim R. Kassam --  Gurinder Singh Mann --  Hugh R. Page Jr. --  R.S. Sugirtharajah --  Yan Shoucheng --  William L. Andrews --  Oyeronke Olajubu --  Sathianathan Clarke --  Sze-kar Wan --  Yvonne P. Chireau --  Colleen McDannell --  Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje --  Erin Runions --  Grey Gundaker --  Leslie King-Hammond --  Susan F. Harding --  Laura E. Donaldson --  Leonard Harris --  Patrick Olivelle --  Wesley A. Kort --  Jo Diamond --  Jose Rabasa --  Burton L. Visotzky --  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza --  Joseph Parker --  Ranu Samantrai --  Introduction:  Talking back --  Talking back --  Talking back --  Talking back --  Talking back. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sacred books--History and criticism.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL71  / .T49 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>208/.2