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Scripturalizing the Human - The Written as the Political (Hardcover)
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Scripturalizing the Human - The Written as the Political (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
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Scripturalizing the Human is a transdisciplinary collection of
essays that reconceptualizes and models "scriptural studies" as a
critical, comparative set of practices with broad ramifications for
scholars of religion and biblical studies. This critical historical
and ethnographic project is focused on
scriptures/scripturalization/scripturalizing as shorthand for the
(psycho-cultural and socio-political) "work" we make language do
for and to us. Each essay focuses on an instance of or situation
involving such work, engaging with the Bible, Book of Mormon,
Bhagavata Purana, and other sacred texts, artifacts, and practices
in order to explore historical and ongoing constructions of the
human. Contributors use the category of "scriptures"-understood not
simply as texts, but as freighted shorthand for the dynamics and
ultimate politics of language-as tools for self-illumination and
self-analysis. The significance of the collection lies in the
window it opens to the rich and complex view of the highs and lows
of human-(un-)making as it establishes the connections between a
seemingly basic and apolitical religious category and a set of
larger social-cultural phenomena and dynamics.
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