Textuality, Culture and Scripture

Wesley A. Kort taught in the Department of Religion at Princeton University before he joined the faculty of the Department of Religion and the Graduate Program of Religion at Duke University where he served until becoming professor emeritus of religion in 2014. He is the author of 11 books and many scholarly articles in books and journals that relate religious, literary, and cultural studies to one another.

• Introduction; 1. The Rise of a Materialist Culture; 2. Culture and Textuality; 3. “Scripture” as a Necessary Category in an Adequate Textual Theory; 4. “Scripture” and the Bible; 5. Reading the Bible as “Scripture”; Conclusion; Index.

“Textuality, Culture, and Scripture integrates and extends Wesley Kort’s scholarly project of formulating a program in the literary study of religion that is at once resonant with and critical of late modernity. On display per usual are Kort’s special combination of theoretical sophistication and close textual reading, in the service here of what is his most impressive statement to date of the innate multivalence of the idea of the ‘text’ and the consequent intersectionality of ‘the sacred’ and ‘the secular.’”—Richard A. Rosengarten, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA