Refractions of the Scriptural (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Orientation as Transgression
Redaktion: Wimbush, Vincent L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Refractions of the Scriptural is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that seeks to construct a new field of scholarly inquiry with scriptures as a fraught category, analytical wedge, and site for excavation and problematization. The book focuses on the ways in which individual and social bodies manipulate-and are manipulated by- the politics and power encoded in language and formalized canonical knowledge. Scriptures, in this sense, function as complex phenomena that are instrumental to social conservatism as well as social critique and social change. The essays in this volume, written by established and up-and-coming scholars across a wide range of disciplines, seek to locate, engage, and interpret the ways in which the scriptural shapes and reshapes people and the dynamics of identity formation. The chapters are organized around four domains or types of inquiry: the cognitive, the conscientized, the inscriptive, and the formative. It will be of interest to scholars of religion, as well as those interested more broadly in critical social and historical studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317243564
• Artikelnr.: 44782542

Autorenporträt

Vincent L. Wimbush is the director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures and is past president of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Scriptures and Transgression Part I: The Cognitive (Or: Ways
of Knowing) 1. Scriptures, Culture, and Cognition William E. Deal 2.
Scripture as Ground and Idea Wesley A. Kort Part II: Conscientization (Or:
Knowing the Self in the World) 3. The Blue Cat Scholar: Answering the Call
for a New Critical Orientation to the Study of Scriptures Velma E. Love 4.
The Institute for Signifying Scriptures: Toward A Critical Emancipatory
Intellectual Space Elisabeth Schuessler Fiorenza 5. Transgressing Racial
Sexual Policing: A Counter-Scripturalization of Black and White Bodies
Cécile Coquet-Mokoko 6. Trespassing Scriptural Boundaries: Secularism,
Specialization and the Humanities C. Travis Webb Part III: The Inscriptive
(Or: Making the World) 7. The Great and Proper Names Used in America
Rosamond C. Rodman 8. Edenic Gardens and African Landscapes Grey Gundaker
Part IV: The Formative (Or: [Re-] Making the World 9. Competing Land Claims
and Conflicting Scriptures: Chemehuevi and Chicano Sacred Sites in Blythe,
California Jacqueline M. Hidalgo 10. Journey-s to the West: (Re)Writing
Scripts, Scriptures, and Scripturalization Tat-siong Benny Liew 11. Reading
Black Identity: Kimbanguism and the Bible Aurélien Gampiot Afterword: The
Fruits of Transgression Leif E. Vaage