Introduction: Scriptures and Transgression  Part I: The Cognitive (Or: Ways of Knowing)   1. Scriptures, Culture, and Cognition William E. Deal   2. Scripture as Ground and Idea Wesley A. Kort   Part II: Conscientization (Or: Knowing the Self in the World)  3. The Blue Cat Scholar: Answering the Call for a New Critical Orientation to the Study of Scriptures Velma E. Love   4. The Institute for Signifying Scriptures: Toward A Critical Emancipatory Intellectual Space Elisabeth Schuessler Fiorenza   5.

Transgressing Racial Sexual Policing: A Counter-Scripturalization of Black and White Bodies Ccile Coquet-Mokoko   6. Trespassing Scriptural Boundaries: Secularism, Specialization and the Humanities C. Travis Webb   Part III: The Inscriptive (Or: Making the World)   7. The Great and Proper Names Used in America Rosamond C. Rodman   8. Edenic Gardens and African Landscapes Grey Gundaker   Part IV: The Formative (Or: [Re-] Making the World  9. Competing Land Claims and Conflicting Scriptures: Chemehuevi and Chicano Sacred Sites in Blythe, California Jacqueline M. Hidalgo   10.

Journey-s to the West: (Re)Writing Scripts, Scriptures, and Scripturalization Tat-siong Benny Liew   11. Reading Black Identity: Kimbanguism and the Bible Aurlien Gampiot   Afterword: The Fruits of Transgression Leif E. Vaage.