{"product_id":"theorizing-scriptures-new-critical-orientations-to-a-cultural-phenomenon-signifying-on-scriptures-signifying-on-scriptures-series-9780813542041","title":"Theorizing Scriptures New Critical Orientations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorically, religious scriptures are defined as holy texts that are considered to be beyond the abilities of the layperson to interpret. This title provides a look at the social, cultural, and racial meanings invested in these texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSignifying on Scriptures\u003c\/i\u003e, Wimbush inaugurates a conversation that fills enormous gaps in the study of religious texts and practices, and shifts the field to new dimensions of exploration and new possibilities for critical reflection. -- Karen L. King * author of The Gospel of Mary of Magdala *\u003cbr\u003eThe essays, by some of the best minds in the field, form a volume that is arresting in its vision and dynamically daring-a powerful challenge to scriptural interpretation across and within cultures worldwide. -- Vivian-Lee Nyitray * University of California, Riverside *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Charles H. Long \u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: TEXTureS, Gestures, Power: Orientation to Radical Excavation by Vincent L. Wimbush\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Phenomenon - and Its Origins\u003cbr\u003e 1. Scriptures - Test and Then Some by Catherine Bell\u003cbr\u003e 2. Signifying Revelation in Islam by Tazim R. Kassam\u003cbr\u003e 3. Scriptures and the Nature of Authority: The Case of the Guru Granth in Sikh Tradition by Gurinder Singh Mann\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Dynamics of Scripturalization: The Ancient Near by Hugh R. Page Jr.\u003cbr\u003e 5. Known Knowns and Unknown Unknowns: Scriptures and Scriptural Interpretations by R. S. Sugirtharajah\u003cbr\u003e Talking Back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Settings, Situations, Practices\u003cbr\u003e 6. Signifying Scriptures in Confucianism by Yan Shoucheng\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Confessions of Nat Turner: Memoir of a Martyr or Testament of a Terrorist? by William L. Andrews\u003cbr\u003e 8. Signifying Scriptures from an African Perspective by Oyeronke Olajubu\u003cbr\u003e 9. Transforming Identities, De-textualizing Interpretation, and Re-modalizing Representation: Scriptures and Subaltern Subjectivity in India by Sathianathan Clarke\u003cbr\u003e 10. Signification as Scripturalization: Communal Memories Among the Miao and in Ancient Jewish Allegorization by Sze-Kar Wan\u003cbr\u003e Talking Back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Material and Expressive Representations\u003cbr\u003e 11. Conjuring Scriptures and Engendering Healing Traditions by Yvonne P. Chireau\u003cbr\u003e 12. Visualizing Scriptures by Colleen McDannell\u003cbr\u003e 13. Signifying in Nineteenth-Century African American Religious Music by Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje\u003cbr\u003e 14. Signifying Proverbs: \u003ci\u003eMenace II Society\u003c\/i\u003e Erin Runions\u003cbr\u003e 15. Scriptures Beyond Script: Some African Diasporic Occasions by Grey Gundaker\u003cbr\u003e 16. Texture, Text, and Testament: Reading Sacred Symbols\/Signifying Imagery in American Visual Culture by Leslie King-Hammond\u003cbr\u003e Talking Back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Psycho-Social-Cultural\/Power Needs and Dynamics \u003cbr\u003e 17. Differences at Play in the Fields of the Lord by Susan F. Harding \u003cbr\u003e 18. American Samson: Biblical Reading and National Origins by Laura E. Donaldson\u003cbr\u003e 19. Against Signifying: Pyschological Needs and Natural Evil by Leonard Harris\u003cbr\u003e 20. Orality, Memory, and Power: Vedic Scriptures and Brahmanical Hegemony in India by Patrick Olivelle\u003cbr\u003e 21. Reading Places\/Reading Scriptures by Wesley A. Kort \u003cbr\u003e 22. Taniwha and Serpent: A Trans-Tasman Riff by Jo Diamond \u003cbr\u003e 23. Scriptures Without Letters, Subversions of Pictography, Signifyin(g) Alphabetical Writing by Jose Rabasa\u003cbr\u003e Talking Back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Signifying on the Questions\u003cbr\u003e 24. In Hoc Signum Vincent: A Midrashist Replies by Burton L. Visotzky\u003cbr\u003e 25. Powerful Words: The Social-intellectual Location of the International Signifying Scriptures Project by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza\u003cbr\u003e 26. Racial and Colonial Politics of the Modern Object of Knowledge: Cautionary Notes on \"Scripture\" by Joseph Parker\u003cbr\u003e 27. Who Needs the Subaltern? by Ranu Samantrai\u003cbr\u003e Talking Back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038413816151,"sku":"9780813542041","price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813542041.jpg?v=1750940261","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theorizing-scriptures-new-critical-orientations-to-a-cultural-phenomenon-signifying-on-scriptures-signifying-on-scriptures-series-9780813542041","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}