1st Edition

Refractions of the Scriptural Critical Orientation as Transgression

Edited By Vincent L. Wimbush Copyright 2016
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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