
Theorizing Scriptures
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- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction TEXTureS, Gestures, Power: Orientation to Radical Excavation
- Part I: The Phenomenon--And Its Origins
- Chapter 1: Scriptures-Text and Then Some
- Chapter 2: Signifying Revelation in Islam
- Chapter 3: Scriptures and the Nature of Authority: The Case of the Guru Granth in Sikh Tradition
- Chapter 4: The Dynamics of Scripturalization: The Ancient Near East
- Chapter 5: Known Knowns and Unknown Unknowns: Scriptures and Scriptural Interpretations
- Talking Back
- Part II: Settings, Situations, Practices
- Chapter 6: Signifying Scriptures in Confucianism
- Chapter 7: The Confessions of Nat Turner: Memoir of a Martyr or Testament of a Terrorist?
- Chapter 8: Signifying Scriptures from an African Perspective
- Chapter 9: Transforming Identities, De-textualizing Interpretation, and Re-modalizing Representation: Scriptures and Subaltern Subjectivity in India
- Chapter 10: Signification as Scripturalization: Communal Memories Among the Miao and in Ancient Jewish Allegorization
- Talking Back
- Part III: Material and Expressive Representations
- Chapter 11: Conjuring Scriptures and Engendering Healing Traditions
- Chapter 12: Visualizing Scriptures
- Chapter 13: Signifying in Nineteenth-Century African American Religious Music
- Chapter 14: Signifying Proverbs: MENACE II SOCIETY
- Chapter 15: Scriptures Beyond Script: Some African Diasporic Occasions
- Chapter 16: Texture, Text, and Testament: Reading Sacred Symbols/Signifying Imagery in American Visual Culture
- Talking Back
- Part IV: Psycho-Social-Cultural/Power Needs and Dynamics
- Chapter 17: Differences at Play in the Fields of the Lord
- Chapter 18: American Samson: Biblical Reading and National Origins
- Chapter 19: Against Signifying: Psychosocial Needs and Natural Evil
- Chapter 20: Orality, Memory, and Power: Vedic Scriptures and Brahmanical Hegemony in India
- Chapter 21: Reading Places/Reading Scriptures
- Chapter 22: Taniwha and Serpent: A Trans-Tasman Riff
- Chapter 23: Scriptures Without Letters, Subversions of Pictography, Signifyin(g) Alphabetical Writing
- Talking Back
- Part V: Signifying on the Questions
- Chapter 24: In Hoc Signum Vincent: A Midrashist Replies
- Chapter 25: Powerful Words: The Social-intellectual Location of the International Signifying Scriptures Project
- Chapter 26: Racial and Colonial Politics of the Modern Object of Knowledge: Cautionary Notes on "Scripture"
- Chapter 27: Who Needs the Subaltern?
- Talking Back
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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