“I could read it for myself”: Scripturalization, Slavery, and Agency

Revisiting scriptures: Unbinding a critical comparative subfield

“…Through a range of conferences, publications, and multimedia, the ISS has advocated for a transgressive, transdisciplinary conceptual explosion of scriptures as phenomenon. Ethnological and redescriptive (Bielo, 2006; Love, 2012; Mokoko Gampiot, 2017; Vaage, 2014; Yazicioglu, 2013), ISS's understanding of “scripturalization” frames the technology of the written word as illustrative rather than constitutive of metonymic regimes of meaning (Wimbush, 2012, p. 123). As well ISS posits that the management of such dynamics, though whatever media, cannot be dissociated from the “scripturalectics” or social stratification, cultural formation, and psychological (re)orientation that ensue (Wimbush, 2017).…”