SIGNIFYING SCRIPTURES (ISS)

We invite persons of different backgrounds and interests to become members of ISS. We want you to become conversation partners, collaborators in research, partners-in the serious and respectful conversation and exchange of ideas; and in collaborative research-for the sake of engaging these issues, that is, for the sake of excavating traditionally-sublimated, oftentimes-painful but always power-ful aspects of the cycles of formation, de-formation and re-formation of the social self and its orientation. Such work is to be engaged not merely in support of, but in creative, honest and critical conversation with, persistently subaltern selves among us. We invite ex-centric researchers from all fields and disciplines and those serious-minded, honest thinkers and creative risk-takers within but also far outside the academy to collaborate with us in taking up the phenomenon of "scriptures" as analytical wedge for the study of societies and cultures... We understand "scriptures" to be..

Also known as: Signifying Scriptures

Primary location: Decatur United States