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July 9, 2016

ISS First Annual Meeting – Opening Address and Director’s Report

February 19, 2016 by Vincent Wimbush “I wish [we] knew how it would feel to be free”: The Subjunctive Mood …in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized and redistributed according to a certain number of procedures, whose role is to avert its powers and its dangers, to cope with […]

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July 9, 2016

“Strange Fruit,” or How Does a Tree Mean?

Editor’s Note: The following text was presented by C. Travis Webb at the First Annual Meeting of ISS in Portland, OR. It was the framing statement for the discussion on Meaning: How Represented, Communicated? Video for the discussion can be found here, and a full audio record of […]

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July 9, 2016

The Countervailing Dynamics of Sanskritization Strategies and Vernacularizing Practices in Hindu Scriptural Traditions

The Countervailing Dynamics of Sanskritization Strategies and Vernacularizing Practices in Hindu Scriptural Traditions Barbara A. Holdrege, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara June 2016 In this essay I will interrogate the complex interplay between what Vincent Wimbush has characterized as the “enslaving” […]

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July 9, 2016

Trust: Notes on Authority and Secular Scripturalizing

Trust: notes on authority and secular scripturalizing James S. Bielo, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio bielojs@miamioh.edu Tom is an atheist. He is an atheist, but his preferred term of self-identification is “non-theist.” He prefers non-theist, but depending on the context, […]

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