Asceticism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, Richard Valantasis ; with the assistance of Gay L. Byron, William S. Love |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (673 p.) |
Disciplina | 291.4/47 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
WimbushVincent L
ValantasisRichard <1946-> |
Soggetto topico |
Asceticism
Christian life |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-48232-X
0-19-803451-2 1-4237-6307-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Way of the Ascetics: Negative or Affirmative?; 2 The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Héloïse: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics; 3 Women and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Refusal of Status and Gender; 4 Christian Asceticism and the Emergence of the Monastic Tradition; 5 Asceticism and Mysticism in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; 6 Practical, Theoretical, and Cultural Tracings in Late Ancient Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers
7 Rejecting the Body, Refining the Body: Some Remarks on the Development of Platonist Asceticism 8 Primitive Christianity as an Ascetic Movement; 9 Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives on Asceticism; 10 Trajectories of Ascetic Behavior: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 11 Asceticism and Anthropology: Enkrateia and ""Double Creation"" in Early Christianity; 12 Ascetic Closure and the End of Antiquity; 13 Pain, Power, and Personhood: Ascetic Behavior in the Ancient Mediterranean; 14 Asceticism-Audience and Resistance: Response to the Three Preceding Papers 15 Deconstruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism 16 Ascetic Moods in Greek and Latin Literature; 17 Asceticism in the Church of Syria: The Hermeneutics of Early Syrian Monasticism; 18 Ascetic Moods, Hermeneutics, and Bodily Deconstruction: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 19 The Founding of the New Laura; 20 Dreaming the Body: An Aesthetics of Asceticism; 21 Mirabai as Wife and Yogi; 22 Understanding Asceticism-Testing a Typology: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 23 The Significance of Food in Hebraic-African Thought and the Role of Fasting in the Ethiopian Church 24 Simeon the New Theologian: An Ascetical Theology for Middle-Byzantine Monks 25 Asceticism and the Compensations of Art; 26 Sensuality and Mysticism-The Islamic Tradition: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 27 Asceticism and the Moral Good: A Tale of Two Pleasures; 28 Gender and Uses of the Ascetic in an Islamist Text; 29 Maximus the Confessor on the Affections in Historical Perspective; 30 Toward a Politics of Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 31 Renunciation and Gender Issues in the Śri Vaisnava Community 32 Body Politic among the Brides of Christ: Paul and the Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation 33 Athanasius of Alexandria and the Ascetic Movement of His Time; 34 The Politics of Piety: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 35 The Ascetic Impulse in Religious Life: A General Response; Appendix: Ascetica Miscellanea; 36 The Battle for the Body in Manichaean Asceticism; 37 The Allegorization of Gender: Plato and Philo on Spiritual Childbearing; 38 Shame and Sex in Late Antique Judaism; 39 A Theory of the Social Function of Asceticism 40 Psychophysiological and Comparative Analysis of Ascetico-Meditational Discipline: Toward a New Theory of Asceticism |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451889903321 |
New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 | ||
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Asceticism / / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, Richard Valantasis ; with the assistance of Gay L. Byron, William S. Love |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 638 pages) : illustrations, map |
Disciplina | 291.4/47 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
WimbushVincent L
ValantasisRichard <1946-> |
Soggetto topico |
Asceticism
Christian life |
ISBN |
0-19-773827-3
1-280-48232-X 0-19-803451-2 1-4237-6307-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Way of the Ascetics: Negative or Affirmative?; 2 The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Héloïse: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics; 3 Women and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Refusal of Status and Gender; 4 Christian Asceticism and the Emergence of the Monastic Tradition; 5 Asceticism and Mysticism in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; 6 Practical, Theoretical, and Cultural Tracings in Late Ancient Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers
7 Rejecting the Body, Refining the Body: Some Remarks on the Development of Platonist Asceticism 8 Primitive Christianity as an Ascetic Movement; 9 Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives on Asceticism; 10 Trajectories of Ascetic Behavior: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 11 Asceticism and Anthropology: Enkrateia and ""Double Creation"" in Early Christianity; 12 Ascetic Closure and the End of Antiquity; 13 Pain, Power, and Personhood: Ascetic Behavior in the Ancient Mediterranean; 14 Asceticism-Audience and Resistance: Response to the Three Preceding Papers 15 Deconstruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism 16 Ascetic Moods in Greek and Latin Literature; 17 Asceticism in the Church of Syria: The Hermeneutics of Early Syrian Monasticism; 18 Ascetic Moods, Hermeneutics, and Bodily Deconstruction: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 19 The Founding of the New Laura; 20 Dreaming the Body: An Aesthetics of Asceticism; 21 Mirabai as Wife and Yogi; 22 Understanding Asceticism-Testing a Typology: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 23 The Significance of Food in Hebraic-African Thought and the Role of Fasting in the Ethiopian Church 24 Simeon the New Theologian: An Ascetical Theology for Middle-Byzantine Monks 25 Asceticism and the Compensations of Art; 26 Sensuality and Mysticism-The Islamic Tradition: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 27 Asceticism and the Moral Good: A Tale of Two Pleasures; 28 Gender and Uses of the Ascetic in an Islamist Text; 29 Maximus the Confessor on the Affections in Historical Perspective; 30 Toward a Politics of Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 31 Renunciation and Gender Issues in the Śri Vaisnava Community 32 Body Politic among the Brides of Christ: Paul and the Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation 33 Athanasius of Alexandria and the Ascetic Movement of His Time; 34 The Politics of Piety: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 35 The Ascetic Impulse in Religious Life: A General Response; Appendix: Ascetica Miscellanea; 36 The Battle for the Body in Manichaean Asceticism; 37 The Allegorization of Gender: Plato and Philo on Spiritual Childbearing; 38 Shame and Sex in Late Antique Judaism; 39 A Theory of the Social Function of Asceticism; 40 Psychophysiological and Comparative Analysis of Ascetico-Meditational Discipline: Toward a New Theory of Asceticism |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777556303321 |
New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 | ||
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Asceticism / / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, Richard Valantasis ; with the assistance of Gay L. Byron, William S. Love |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 638 pages) : illustrations, map |
Disciplina | 291.4/47 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
WimbushVincent L
ValantasisRichard <1946-> |
Soggetto topico |
Asceticism
Christian life |
ISBN |
0-19-773827-3
1-280-48232-X 0-19-803451-2 1-4237-6307-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Way of the Ascetics: Negative or Affirmative?; 2 The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Héloïse: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics; 3 Women and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Refusal of Status and Gender; 4 Christian Asceticism and the Emergence of the Monastic Tradition; 5 Asceticism and Mysticism in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; 6 Practical, Theoretical, and Cultural Tracings in Late Ancient Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers
7 Rejecting the Body, Refining the Body: Some Remarks on the Development of Platonist Asceticism 8 Primitive Christianity as an Ascetic Movement; 9 Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives on Asceticism; 10 Trajectories of Ascetic Behavior: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 11 Asceticism and Anthropology: Enkrateia and ""Double Creation"" in Early Christianity; 12 Ascetic Closure and the End of Antiquity; 13 Pain, Power, and Personhood: Ascetic Behavior in the Ancient Mediterranean; 14 Asceticism-Audience and Resistance: Response to the Three Preceding Papers 15 Deconstruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism 16 Ascetic Moods in Greek and Latin Literature; 17 Asceticism in the Church of Syria: The Hermeneutics of Early Syrian Monasticism; 18 Ascetic Moods, Hermeneutics, and Bodily Deconstruction: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 19 The Founding of the New Laura; 20 Dreaming the Body: An Aesthetics of Asceticism; 21 Mirabai as Wife and Yogi; 22 Understanding Asceticism-Testing a Typology: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 23 The Significance of Food in Hebraic-African Thought and the Role of Fasting in the Ethiopian Church 24 Simeon the New Theologian: An Ascetical Theology for Middle-Byzantine Monks 25 Asceticism and the Compensations of Art; 26 Sensuality and Mysticism-The Islamic Tradition: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 27 Asceticism and the Moral Good: A Tale of Two Pleasures; 28 Gender and Uses of the Ascetic in an Islamist Text; 29 Maximus the Confessor on the Affections in Historical Perspective; 30 Toward a Politics of Asceticism: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 31 Renunciation and Gender Issues in the Śri Vaisnava Community 32 Body Politic among the Brides of Christ: Paul and the Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation 33 Athanasius of Alexandria and the Ascetic Movement of His Time; 34 The Politics of Piety: Response to the Three Preceding Papers; 35 The Ascetic Impulse in Religious Life: A General Response; Appendix: Ascetica Miscellanea; 36 The Battle for the Body in Manichaean Asceticism; 37 The Allegorization of Gender: Plato and Philo on Spiritual Childbearing; 38 Shame and Sex in Late Antique Judaism; 39 A Theory of the Social Function of Asceticism; 40 Psychophysiological and Comparative Analysis of Ascetico-Meditational Discipline: Toward a New Theory of Asceticism |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824307903321 |
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Asceticism and the New Testament / / edited by Leif E. Vaage, Vincent L. Wimbush |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 444 pages) |
Disciplina | 248.4/7/09015 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
VaageLeif E
WimbushVincent L |
Soggetto topico | Asceticism - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-135-96223-5
1-135-96224-3 0-203-90430-3 1-280-40734-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Asceticism and the Gospel of Matthew; Asceticism and Mark's Gospel; Askesis and the Early Jesus Tradition; Beloved Physician of the Soul? Luke as Advocate for Ascetic Practice; ~Full of Spirit and Wisdom~: Luke's Portrait of Stephen (Acts 6:1 8:1a) as a Man of Self-Mastery; Children of the Resurrection: Perspectives on Angelic Asceticism in Luke-Acts; Asceticism and the Gospel of John; Making Sense of Difference: Asceticism, Gospel Literature, and the Jesus Tradition
God's Will at Thessalonica and Greco-Roman AsceticismDisciplines of Difference: Asceticism and History in Paul; Paul the Prisoner: Political Asceticism in the Letter to the Philippians; The Letter to Philemon and Asceticism; Competing Ascetic Subjectivities in the Letter to the Galatians; Asceticism among the ~Weak~ and ~Strong~ in Romans 14 15; 2 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work; Citizens of Heaven and Earth: Asceticism and Social Integration in Colossians and Ephesians; Askesis and Resistance in the Pastoral Letters Where Is ~This World~ Headed? Irony, World Renunciation, and the Pauline CorpusThe Virtue of Suffering, the Necessity of Discipline, and the Pursuit of Perfection in Hebrews; An Asceticism of Resistance in James; Asceticism or Household Morality? 1 and 2 Peter and Jude; Asceticism in the Johannine Letters?; The Ascetic Way: Reflections on Peace, Justice, and Vengeance in the Apocalypse of John; Imperial Asceticism: Discipline of Domination; Epilogue: The New Testament and Asceticism; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450397203321 |
New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
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Asceticism and the New Testament / / edited by Leif E. Vaage, Vincent L. Wimbush |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 444 pages) |
Disciplina | 248.4/7/09015 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
VaageLeif E
WimbushVincent L |
Soggetto topico | Asceticism - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 |
ISBN |
1-135-96223-5
1-135-96224-3 0-203-90430-3 1-280-40734-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Asceticism and the Gospel of Matthew; Asceticism and Mark's Gospel; Askesis and the Early Jesus Tradition; Beloved Physician of the Soul? Luke as Advocate for Ascetic Practice; ~Full of Spirit and Wisdom~: Luke's Portrait of Stephen (Acts 6:1 8:1a) as a Man of Self-Mastery; Children of the Resurrection: Perspectives on Angelic Asceticism in Luke-Acts; Asceticism and the Gospel of John; Making Sense of Difference: Asceticism, Gospel Literature, and the Jesus Tradition
God's Will at Thessalonica and Greco-Roman AsceticismDisciplines of Difference: Asceticism and History in Paul; Paul the Prisoner: Political Asceticism in the Letter to the Philippians; The Letter to Philemon and Asceticism; Competing Ascetic Subjectivities in the Letter to the Galatians; Asceticism among the ~Weak~ and ~Strong~ in Romans 14 15; 2 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work; Citizens of Heaven and Earth: Asceticism and Social Integration in Colossians and Ephesians; Askesis and Resistance in the Pastoral Letters Where Is ~This World~ Headed? Irony, World Renunciation, and the Pauline CorpusThe Virtue of Suffering, the Necessity of Discipline, and the Pursuit of Perfection in Hebrews; An Asceticism of Resistance in James; Asceticism or Household Morality? 1 and 2 Peter and Jude; Asceticism in the Johannine Letters?; The Ascetic Way: Reflections on Peace, Justice, and Vengeance in the Apocalypse of John; Imperial Asceticism: Discipline of Domination; Epilogue: The New Testament and Asceticism; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783725403321 |
New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
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Asceticism and the New Testament / / edited by Leif E. Vaage, Vincent L. Wimbush |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 444 pages) |
Disciplina | 248.4/7/09015 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
VaageLeif E
WimbushVincent L |
Soggetto topico | Asceticism - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 |
ISBN |
1-135-96223-5
1-135-96224-3 0-203-90430-3 1-280-40734-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Asceticism and the Gospel of Matthew; Asceticism and Mark's Gospel; Askesis and the Early Jesus Tradition; Beloved Physician of the Soul? Luke as Advocate for Ascetic Practice; ~Full of Spirit and Wisdom~: Luke's Portrait of Stephen (Acts 6:1 8:1a) as a Man of Self-Mastery; Children of the Resurrection: Perspectives on Angelic Asceticism in Luke-Acts; Asceticism and the Gospel of John; Making Sense of Difference: Asceticism, Gospel Literature, and the Jesus Tradition
God's Will at Thessalonica and Greco-Roman AsceticismDisciplines of Difference: Asceticism and History in Paul; Paul the Prisoner: Political Asceticism in the Letter to the Philippians; The Letter to Philemon and Asceticism; Competing Ascetic Subjectivities in the Letter to the Galatians; Asceticism among the ~Weak~ and ~Strong~ in Romans 14 15; 2 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work; Citizens of Heaven and Earth: Asceticism and Social Integration in Colossians and Ephesians; Askesis and Resistance in the Pastoral Letters Where Is ~This World~ Headed? Irony, World Renunciation, and the Pauline CorpusThe Virtue of Suffering, the Necessity of Discipline, and the Pursuit of Perfection in Hebrews; An Asceticism of Resistance in James; Asceticism or Household Morality? 1 and 2 Peter and Jude; Asceticism in the Johannine Letters?; The Ascetic Way: Reflections on Peace, Justice, and Vengeance in the Apocalypse of John; Imperial Asceticism: Discipline of Domination; Epilogue: The New Testament and Asceticism; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817019003321 |
New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
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Old Ship of Zion [[electronic resource] ] : The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora |
Autore | Pitts Walter F., the late |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cary, : Oxford University Press, 1996 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) | WimbushVincent L |
Collana | Religion in America |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-535480-X
0-585-32506-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 ""Magnificence, Beauty, Poetry, and Color"": The Afro-Baptist Church, Its Ritual and Frames; 2 ""We Free!"" History of the Afro-Baptist Church; 3 ""I Want to Be at the Meeting"": A History of Afro-Baptist Speech and Hymnody; 4 ""Kabiesile Shango!"" A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Ritual Frames; 5 ""Nothing New under the Sun"": The Variation of Speech and Song in the Afro-Baptist Ritual; 6 ""Like a Ship"": Afro-Baptist Ritual Process; References; Audiography; Index; |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455721003321 |
Pitts Walter F., the late
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Theorizing Scriptures [[electronic resource] ] : new critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon / / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
Disciplina | 208/.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WimbushVincent L |
Collana | Signifying (on) Scriptures |
Soggetto topico | Sacred books - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-39729-6
9786611397296 0-8135-4462-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; Introduction: TEXTureS, gestures, power: orientation to radical excavation / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Scriptures: text and then some / Catherine Bell -- Signifying revelation in Islam / Tazim R. Kassam -- Scriptures and the nature of authority: the case of the Guru Granth in Sikh tradition / Gurinder Singh Mann -- Dynamics of scripturalization: the ancient Near East / Hugh R. Page Jr. -- Known knowns and unknown unknowns: scriptures and scriptural interpretations / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- ; Talking back -- Signifying scriptures in Confucianism / Yan Shoucheng -- Confessions of Nat Turner: memoir of a martyr or testament of a terrorist? / William L. Andrews -- Signifying scriptures from an African perspective / Oyeronke Olajubu -- Transforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation: scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India / Sathianathan Clarke -- Signification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization / Sze-kar Wan -- ; Talking back -- Conjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions / Yvonne P. Chireau -- Visualizing scriptures / Colleen McDannell -- Signifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music / Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje -- Signifying proverbs: Menace II society / Erin Runions -- Scriptures beyond script: some African diasporic occasions / Grey Gundaker -- Texture, text, and testament: reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture / Leslie King-Hammond -- ; Talking back -- Differences at play in the fields of the lord / Susan F. Harding -- American Samson: biblical reading and national origins / Laura E. Donaldson -- Against signifying: psychosocial needs and natural evil / Leonard Harris -- Orality, memory, and power: Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India / Patrick Olivelle -- Reading places/reading scriptures / Wesley A. Kort -- Taniwha and serpent: a trans-Tasman riff / Jo Diamond -- Scriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing / José Rabasa -- ; Talking back -- In Hoc Signum Vincent: a Midrashist replies / Burton L. Visotzky -- Powerful words: the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Racial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge: cautionary notes on "scripture" / Joseph Parker -- Who needs the subaltern? / Ranu Samantrai -- ; Talking back. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454649403321 |
New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 | ||
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Theorizing Scriptures [[electronic resource] ] : new critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon / / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
Disciplina | 208/.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WimbushVincent L |
Collana | Signifying (on) Scriptures |
Soggetto topico | Sacred books - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-281-39729-6
9786611397296 0-8135-4462-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; Introduction: TEXTureS, gestures, power: orientation to radical excavation / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Scriptures: text and then some / Catherine Bell -- Signifying revelation in Islam / Tazim R. Kassam -- Scriptures and the nature of authority: the case of the Guru Granth in Sikh tradition / Gurinder Singh Mann -- Dynamics of scripturalization: the ancient Near East / Hugh R. Page Jr. -- Known knowns and unknown unknowns: scriptures and scriptural interpretations / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- ; Talking back -- Signifying scriptures in Confucianism / Yan Shoucheng -- Confessions of Nat Turner: memoir of a martyr or testament of a terrorist? / William L. Andrews -- Signifying scriptures from an African perspective / Oyeronke Olajubu -- Transforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation: scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India / Sathianathan Clarke -- Signification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization / Sze-kar Wan -- ; Talking back -- Conjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions / Yvonne P. Chireau -- Visualizing scriptures / Colleen McDannell -- Signifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music / Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje -- Signifying proverbs: Menace II society / Erin Runions -- Scriptures beyond script: some African diasporic occasions / Grey Gundaker -- Texture, text, and testament: reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture / Leslie King-Hammond -- ; Talking back -- Differences at play in the fields of the lord / Susan F. Harding -- American Samson: biblical reading and national origins / Laura E. Donaldson -- Against signifying: psychosocial needs and natural evil / Leonard Harris -- Orality, memory, and power: Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India / Patrick Olivelle -- Reading places/reading scriptures / Wesley A. Kort -- Taniwha and serpent: a trans-Tasman riff / Jo Diamond -- Scriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing / José Rabasa -- ; Talking back -- In Hoc Signum Vincent: a Midrashist replies / Burton L. Visotzky -- Powerful words: the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Racial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge: cautionary notes on "scripture" / Joseph Parker -- Who needs the subaltern? / Ranu Samantrai -- ; Talking back. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782288003321 |
New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 | ||
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Theorizing Scriptures [[electronic resource] ] : new critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon / / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
Disciplina | 208/.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WimbushVincent L |
Collana | Signifying (on) Scriptures |
Soggetto topico | Sacred books - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-281-39729-6
9786611397296 0-8135-4462-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; Introduction: TEXTureS, gestures, power: orientation to radical excavation / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Scriptures: text and then some / Catherine Bell -- Signifying revelation in Islam / Tazim R. Kassam -- Scriptures and the nature of authority: the case of the Guru Granth in Sikh tradition / Gurinder Singh Mann -- Dynamics of scripturalization: the ancient Near East / Hugh R. Page Jr. -- Known knowns and unknown unknowns: scriptures and scriptural interpretations / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- ; Talking back -- Signifying scriptures in Confucianism / Yan Shoucheng -- Confessions of Nat Turner: memoir of a martyr or testament of a terrorist? / William L. Andrews -- Signifying scriptures from an African perspective / Oyeronke Olajubu -- Transforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation: scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India / Sathianathan Clarke -- Signification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization / Sze-kar Wan -- ; Talking back -- Conjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions / Yvonne P. Chireau -- Visualizing scriptures / Colleen McDannell -- Signifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music / Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje -- Signifying proverbs: Menace II society / Erin Runions -- Scriptures beyond script: some African diasporic occasions / Grey Gundaker -- Texture, text, and testament: reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture / Leslie King-Hammond -- ; Talking back -- Differences at play in the fields of the lord / Susan F. Harding -- American Samson: biblical reading and national origins / Laura E. Donaldson -- Against signifying: psychosocial needs and natural evil / Leonard Harris -- Orality, memory, and power: Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India / Patrick Olivelle -- Reading places/reading scriptures / Wesley A. Kort -- Taniwha and serpent: a trans-Tasman riff / Jo Diamond -- Scriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing / José Rabasa -- ; Talking back -- In Hoc Signum Vincent: a Midrashist replies / Burton L. Visotzky -- Powerful words: the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Racial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge: cautionary notes on "scripture" / Joseph Parker -- Who needs the subaltern? / Ranu Samantrai -- ; Talking back. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826727403321 |
New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 | ||
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