TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wimbush,Vincent L.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Theorizing Scriptures: new critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon 
T2  - Signifying (on) Scriptures
AV  - BL71 .T49 2008
U1  - 208/.2 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Sacred books
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index; 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 --; Talking back --; 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 --; Talking back --; 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 --; Talking back --; 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; Jose Rabasa --; Talking back --; In Hoc Signum Vincent: a Midrashist replies; Burton L. Visotzky --; Powerful words: the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project; Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza --; Racial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge: cautionary notes on "scripture"; Joseph Parker --; Who needs the subaltern?; Ranu Samantrai --; Talking back; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
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