Theorizing Scriptures new critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon /
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
c2008.
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| Series: | Signifying (on) Scriptures.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 / José 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 Schüssler 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.