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245 0 0 _aTheorizing Scriptures
_h[electronic resource] :
_bnew critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon /
_cedited by Vincent L. Wimbush.
260 _aNew Brunswick, N.J. :
_bRutgers University Press,
_cc2008.
300 _axii, 310 p. :
_bill.
490 1 _aSignifying (on) Scriptures
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index.
505 0 0 _gIntroduction:
_tTEXTureS, gestures, power: orientation to radical excavation /
_rVincent L. Wimbush --
_tScriptures: text and then some /
_rCatherine Bell --
_tSignifying revelation in Islam /
_rTazim R. Kassam --
_tScriptures and the nature of authority: the case of the Guru Granth in Sikh tradition /
_rGurinder Singh Mann --
_tDynamics of scripturalization: the ancient Near East /
_rHugh R. Page Jr. --
_tKnown knowns and unknown unknowns: scriptures and scriptural interpretations /
_rR.S. Sugirtharajah --
_gTalking back --
_tSignifying scriptures in Confucianism /
_rYan Shoucheng --
_tConfessions of Nat Turner: memoir of a martyr or testament of a terrorist? /
_rWilliam L. Andrews --
_tSignifying scriptures from an African perspective /
_rOyeronke Olajubu --
_tTransforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation: scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India /
_rSathianathan Clarke --
_tSignification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization /
_rSze-kar Wan --
_gTalking back --
_tConjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions /
_rYvonne P. Chireau --
_tVisualizing scriptures /
_rColleen McDannell --
_tSignifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music /
_rJacqueline Cogdell Djedje --
_tSignifying proverbs: Menace II society /
_rErin Runions --
_tScriptures beyond script: some African diasporic occasions /
_rGrey Gundaker --
_tTexture, text, and testament: reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture /
_rLeslie King-Hammond --
_gTalking back --
_tDifferences at play in the fields of the lord /
_rSusan F. Harding --
_tAmerican Samson: biblical reading and national origins /
_rLaura E. Donaldson --
_tAgainst signifying: psychosocial needs and natural evil /
_rLeonard Harris --
_tOrality, memory, and power: Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India /
_rPatrick Olivelle --
_tReading places/reading scriptures /
_rWesley A. Kort --
_tTaniwha and serpent: a trans-Tasman riff /
_rJo Diamond --
_tScriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing /
_rJos�e Rabasa --
_gTalking back --
_tIn Hoc Signum Vincent: a Midrashist replies /
_rBurton L. Visotzky --
_tPowerful words: the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project /
_rElisabeth Sch�ussler Fiorenza --
_tRacial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge: cautionary notes on "scripture" /
_rJoseph Parker --
_tWho needs the subaltern? /
_rRanu Samantrai --
_gTalking back.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aSacred books
_xHistory and criticism.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aWimbush, Vincent L.
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
830 0 _aSignifying (on) Scriptures.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/kliuc/Doc?id=10231505
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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