Scriptures Everywhere
Scriptures Everywhere
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What are scriptures? What is the work people make scriptures do? Each season in this podcast, we come together monthly as a learning community, and we reflect on the relationship between scriptures and particularly persistent themes in the world around us.
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The podcast focuses on themes such as the role of scriptures in cultural history, and social justice, with specific episodes exploring concepts like Marronage and featuring discussions around the intersection of faith and art in contemporary society.
What are scriptures? What is the work people make scriptures do? In this podcast, we come together monthly as a learning community, and we reflect on the relationship between scriptures and particularly persistent themes in the world around us.
In this first episode of our spring 2026 season, we speak live from the Institute for Signifying Scriptures Annual Meeting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. We discuss the introduction to Stephen Best’s None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life (Duke, 2018) with a focus on how scriptures make diasporas and what it takes to demystify and “decode” the scriptural traditions of social life. Special thanks to Richard Newton, University of Alabama Department of Religious Studies, for organizing this annual meeting and conversation.
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