UNITED
STATES: WEST  California Institute for Signifying
Scriptures (Claremont Graduate University)
| Name and
Address |
Institute for Signifying
Scriptures
Claremont Graduate University
School of Religion
1017 North Dartmouth Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711 |
| Contact |
iss@cgu.edu
Vincent.Wimbush@cgu.edu |
| Website |
http://iss.cgu.edu/ |
| External
Fellowships? |
No |
| Director |
Vincent Wimbush |
Mission
Statement
The Institute for Signifying Scriptures (ISS) has as its primary
purpose the facilitation of transgressive research into the phenomena—practices,
representations, ideologies and power dynamics—historically
subsumed under the freighted (English) shorthand “scriptures.”
The research agenda has to do primarily not with the pursuit of the
content-meaning of texts, but with the description and critical analysis
of the complex sights, sounds, smells, movements and arrangements
of social-cultural textures, as they are woven around texts. In recognition
of their inconsistent (in)visibility to standard criticisms, and on
account of the challenges that their positionalities in and orientations
to the world offer to general theorizing about the ways human beings
communicate and seek and negotiate meaning and social power (signify),
privileged but not exclusive focus is placed upon dominated peoples
around the world.
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