Refractions of the Scriptural: Critical Orientation as Transgression

ISBN-13: 9780367597047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str.

Vincent L. Wimbush

Opis

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— th

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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