Vincent L. Wimbush, Ph D, Harvard University, is Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures at the Claremont Graduate University.
20 Ebooks by Vincent L. Wimbush
Vincent L. Wimbush: 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 Wimbush here …
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€7.52
Vincent L. Wimbush: Scripturalectics
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 …
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€114.30
Vincent L. Wimbush: Scripturalectics
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 …
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€91.09
the late Walter F. Pitts: Old Ship of Zion
This book retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. During a five-year period in the field, Pitts played the piano at and recorded numerous worship services in black Baptist …
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€123.23
Richard Valantasis & Vincent L. Wimbush: 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 …
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€62.34
Vincent L. Wimbush: 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 the best-known …
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€41.40
Lalruatkima & Melissa Renee Reid: MisReading America
Mis Reading America presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in American communities of color, using the phenomenon of the reading of …
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€45.54
Leif E. Vaage & Vincent L. Wimbush: 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 religions. The question …
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€56.91
Leif E. Vaage & Vincent L. Wimbush: 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 religions. The question …
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€57.79
Vincent L. Wimbush: 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 wedge, and site fo …
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€57.77
Vincent L. Wimbush: 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 wedge, and site fo …
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€57.80
Vincent L. Wimbush: Scripturalizing the Human
Scripturalizing the Human is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that reconceptualizes and models "scriptural studies" as a critical, comparative set of practices with broad …
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€57.28
Vincent L. Wimbush: Scripturalizing the Human
Scripturalizing the Human is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that reconceptualizes and models "scriptural studies" as a critical, comparative set of practices with broad …
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€57.77
Vincent L. Wimbush: Paul, the Worldly Ascetic
In writing to the Corinthians, Paul was grappling with fundamental issues concerning the lifestyle of Christians, and specifically with questions about marriage, interracial marriage, and remarriage. …
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€19.99
Vincent L. Wimbush: 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 Bible courses …
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€99.99
Vincent L. Wimbush: The Bible and the American Myth
‘[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, while simultaneously …
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€25.99
Vincent L. Wimbush: 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 hyper-signification …
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€43.93
Vincent L. Wimbush: 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 orientations who focus …
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€43.98
