Vincent L Wimbush

Scripturalectics

The Management of Meaning. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 200 Seiten
ISBN 0190664703
EAN 9780190664701
Veröffentlicht Juni 2017
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press
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Beschreibung

In this book Vincent Wimbush seeks to problematize what we call "scriptures," a word first used to refer simply to "things written," the registration of basic information. In the modern world the word came to be associated almost exclusively with the center- and power-defining "sacred" texts of "world religions." Wimbush argues that this narrowing of the valence of the term was a decisive development for western culture.

Portrait

Vincent L. Wimbush is the former president of the Society of Biblical Literature, the founding director of The Institute for Signifying Scriptures. He is the author or editor of several books, most recently MisReading America: Scriptures and Difference, White Men's Magic: Scripturalization as Slavery, and Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon.

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