It's Scripturalization, Colleagues!
Rudolph Ware's fascinating book, The Walking Qur'an, does not address the broader challenges of scripturalizationthat 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...
| Published in: | Journal of Africana religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2015]
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| In: |
Journal of Africana religions
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Holy books
/ Canon
/ Rise of
/ Manipulation
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | Rudolph Ware's fascinating book, The Walking Qur'an, does not address the broader challenges of scripturalizationthat 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 engagement of Islamic scriptures in West Africa, Ware's book nonetheless fetishizes the text. It is an apologetic that does not address how, through the mimetic (scripturalizing) practices that are managed by the regime of scripturalization, people in West Africa and peoples throughout the world have manipulated their own and others' imaginations and have been manipulated in turn. This critique is a challenge to a different type of critical orientationto social formation and human-making. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.3.2.0193 |