Vincent L Wimbush
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 412017 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vincent L Wimbush |
| NOMBRES | Vincent L |
| APELLIDO | Wimbush |
| FIRMA | WIMBUSH V L |
| AFILIACIONES | School of Theology at Claremont Claremont, California |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Mormonism and the Limits of Scripture
The complex, modern, US-founded but now international, social-cultural phenomenon categorized most popularly by insiders and outsiders as “Mormons,” the “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” and/or simply by analysts as a provocative example of modern “religion,” is, as it should be, approached by the latter through many different disciplines and areas and fields of study and in myriad and overlapping ways. From the historical to the lit…
Theorizing Scriptures
Historically, religious scriptures are defined as holy texts that are considered to be beyond the abilities of the layperson to interpret. Their content is most frequently analyzed by clerics who do not question the underlying political or social implications of the text, but use the writing to convey messages to their congregations about how to live a holy existence. In Western society, moreover, what counts as scripture is generally confined to…
Scripturalectics
This book is about the work we make texts do for us, a transdisciplinary theoretical essay in the politics of language and communication. The author engages such politics by problematizing and excavating “scriptures,” a word first used to refer simply to “things written” and then by the nineteenth century associated almost exclusively with the center-holding and power-defining (“sacred”) texts of the “world religions.”
“We Have Fallen Apart”
This chapter is exploration of the conditions and reasons for the near destruction of the villagers who are ensnared by the colonial project and its forms of violence. Beyond expropriation of their land, the villagers face erasure of their local customs and traditions, their rituals, their language, their rhythms, and so forth, as the colonial power commandeers discourse itself. We are presented a frightening picture of the destructive work that …
Summary Conclusion
This book represents the unsettling of some widely shared assumptions, among them the following: 1. Scriptures have to do with specific isolable objects, a “there there” (“text”/“book”). 2. “They” are projections from, about, and for a specific cordoned-off domain (“religion”). 3. “They” represent and project this or that (“great” = worldwide) tradition (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu)....
“Aru Oyim de de de Dei!”
Things Fall Apart , with its thick and complex and rich representation of traditional village life, especially its central/centering rituals, sensibilities, and orientation, opens a window onto a world with a particular type of collective consciousness and politics and dynamics. In this chapter the Umuofia village in what we know today as Nigeria is introduced as the semi-fictional setting for the ongoing dynamics of a socially complex and richly…
Refractions of the Scriptural
It's Scripturalization, Colleagues
Rudolph Ware's fascinating book, The Walking Qur'an, does not address the broader challenges of scripturalization—that is, the process by which a text becomes “scripture” and the powerful interests that this authorizing of text reflects and secures. Why, for example, does Ware's book appeal to a discussion of the classical tradition without addressing the ideologies that such a framing presupposes? Even as it claims a focus on an embodied engagem…
MisReading America
This collection of ethnographic essays illuminates the “reading” of the United States of America as a scriptural formation by focusing on the scripturalizing practices of peoples of color. Through the uses of “scriptures” (broadly defined) majoritarian readings have long (over)determined the nation—its origins, historical development, diversification, cultural boundaries values, textures, and representations. The result is a scriptural formation …
Theorizing Scriptures
Title Pages
Asceticism
From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon throughout history. Offering a sweeping view of this elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture, Asceticism looks at the ascetic impulse from a unique vantage point. Cross-cultural, cross-religious, and multidisciplinary in nature, these essays provide a broad historical and comparative perspective on asceti…
Reading the Bible in the Global Village
Asceticism
Cassian the Monk. Columba Stewart
Asceticism
Asceticism
Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation
The Ascetic Impulse in Ancient Christianity
“It is important to understand ... that the difference between the non-elites (‘the weak’) and the elites in Corinth is not that between a world-rejecting ethic (the ‘weak’) on the one hand and a world-embracing ethic (the pneumatic elites) on the other. Clearly, both groups shared the imperative to renounce the world; the fact of membership in this new social group, the Jesus movement at Corinth, suggests as much.”
Radical Christianity
The Ascetic Impulse in Ancient Christianity
“It is important to understand ... that the difference between the non-elites (‘the weak’) and the elites in Corinth is not that between a world-rejecting ethic (the ‘weak’) on the one hand and a world-embracing ethic (the pneumatic elites) on the other. Clearly, both groups shared the imperative to renounce the world; the fact of membership in this new social group, the Jesus movement at Corinth, suggests as much.”
Radical Christianity
The Ascetic Impulse in Ancient Christianity
“It is important to understand ... that the difference between the non-elites (‘the weak’) and the elites in Corinth is not that between a world-rejecting ethic (the ‘weak’) on the one hand and a world-embracing ethic (the pneumatic elites) on the other. Clearly, both groups shared the imperative to renounce the world; the fact of membership in this new social group, the Jesus movement at Corinth, suggests as much.”
Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation
Asceticism
Asceticism
Asceticism
Cassian the Monk. Columba Stewart
Title Pages
Asceticism
From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon throughout history. Offering a sweeping view of this elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture, Asceticism looks at the ascetic impulse from a unique vantage point. Cross-cultural, cross-religious, and multidisciplinary in nature, these essays provide a broad historical and comparative perspective on asceti…
Reading the Bible in the Global Village
Theorizing Scriptures
MisReading America
This collection of ethnographic essays illuminates the “reading” of the United States of America as a scriptural formation by focusing on the scripturalizing practices of peoples of color. Through the uses of “scriptures” (broadly defined) majoritarian readings have long (over)determined the nation—its origins, historical development, diversification, cultural boundaries values, textures, and representations. The result is a scriptural formation …
It's Scripturalization, Colleagues
Rudolph Ware's fascinating book, The Walking Qur'an, does not address the broader challenges of scripturalization—that is, the process by which a text becomes “scripture” and the powerful interests that this authorizing of text reflects and secures. Why, for example, does Ware's book appeal to a discussion of the classical tradition without addressing the ideologies that such a framing presupposes? Even as it claims a focus on an embodied engagem…
Refractions of the Scriptural
Scripturalectics
This book is about the work we make texts do for us, a transdisciplinary theoretical essay in the politics of language and communication. The author engages such politics by problematizing and excavating “scriptures,” a word first used to refer simply to “things written” and then by the nineteenth century associated almost exclusively with the center-holding and power-defining (“sacred”) texts of the “world religions.”
“We Have Fallen Apart”
This chapter is exploration of the conditions and reasons for the near destruction of the villagers who are ensnared by the colonial project and its forms of violence. Beyond expropriation of their land, the villagers face erasure of their local customs and traditions, their rituals, their language, their rhythms, and so forth, as the colonial power commandeers discourse itself. We are presented a frightening picture of the destructive work that …
Summary Conclusion
This book represents the unsettling of some widely shared assumptions, among them the following: 1. Scriptures have to do with specific isolable objects, a “there there” (“text”/“book”). 2. “They” are projections from, about, and for a specific cordoned-off domain (“religion”). 3. “They” represent and project this or that (“great” = worldwide) tradition (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu)....
“Aru Oyim de de de Dei!”
Things Fall Apart , with its thick and complex and rich representation of traditional village life, especially its central/centering rituals, sensibilities, and orientation, opens a window onto a world with a particular type of collective consciousness and politics and dynamics. In this chapter the Umuofia village in what we know today as Nigeria is introduced as the semi-fictional setting for the ongoing dynamics of a socially complex and richly…
Mormonism and the Limits of Scripture
The complex, modern, US-founded but now international, social-cultural phenomenon categorized most popularly by insiders and outsiders as “Mormons,” the “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” and/or simply by analysts as a provocative example of modern “religion,” is, as it should be, approached by the latter through many different disciplines and areas and fields of study and in myriad and overlapping ways. From the historical to the lit…
Theorizing Scriptures
Historically, religious scriptures are defined as holy texts that are considered to be beyond the abilities of the layperson to interpret. Their content is most frequently analyzed by clerics who do not question the underlying political or social implications of the text, but use the writing to convey messages to their congregations about how to live a holy existence. In Western society, moreover, what counts as scripture is generally confined to…
Philosophy (17 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Theology (10 obras) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (9 obras) · History (9 obras) · Religion and Society Interactions (8 obras) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Aesthetics (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras)