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Scripturalectics
In this book ,Vincent Wimbush seeks to problematize what we call "e;scriptures,"e; a word first used to refer simply to "e;things written,"e; the registration of …
Asceticism and the New Testament
As a complex historical phenomenon, asceticism raises the question about ordinary impulses, the orientation and practices, the power dynamics and politics with transcendental …
Bible and African Americans
African Americans unique encounter with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and the social engagement of a whole continent. In The Bible and African Americans, highly …
White Men's Magic
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, first published in England in 1789, was one of the earliest and remains to this day one of …
Scripturalizing the Human
Scripturalizing the Human is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that reconceptualizes and models "e;scriptural studies"e; as a critical, comparative set of practices …
Bible and African Americans
The unique encounter of African Americans with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and social engagement of a whole continent. Highly respected biblical scholar Vincent …
Black Flesh Matters
These essays, written over more than thirty years of Vincent L. Wimbush's career as a scholar, provide a response to the nearly universal, persistent, and sedimented modern-world …
Refractions of the Scriptural
Refractions of the Scriptural is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that seeks to construct a new field of scholarly inquiry with scriptures as a fraught category, analytical …
Asceticism and the New Testament
Bible and the American Myth
"e;[T]he problem which this collection of essays addresses is rooted in the fact that no other society in the world is so imbued both with the aura and aroma of the Bible, …
African Americans and the Bible
Perhaps no other group of people has been as much formed by biblical texts and tropes as African Americans. From literature and the arts to popular culture and everyday life, the …
Masquerade
Continuing his project of critical analysis of the scriptural formation of culture, Vincent L. Wimbush has gathered in this book essays by scholars of various backgrounds and …