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 Cécile 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 Aurélien Gampiot Afterword: The Fruits of Transgression Leif E. Vaage.