Postscripts

EDITED BY:

Bradford A. Anderson, Dublin City University, Ireland

COLLECTIONS:
Biblical Studies Collection
Complete Collection
​Theory, Method & Special Topics Collection

Selected Articles:
AfroDiasporic & Indigenous Studies​
Christianity
Islamic Studies
Judaism
New Religious Movements, Paganisms & Western Esotericism
South & East Asia

Postscripts is a fully refereed journal devoted to the academic study of scriptures around the globe, with a particular focus on the use and reception of sacred texts in both historical and contemporary perspective. The study of sacred texts has historically been a highly technical, specialized, and elite practice, held in preserve by religious authorities and professional scholars, and dedicated almost exclusively to the interpretation of these writings. As important as this technical and specialized work is, it represents only a small proportion of the rich panoply of engagements with texts that are foundational in the lives of individuals and communities around the world-texts that travel under the name of ‘scriptures' or ‘sacred' texts.

Postscripts takes seriously a broad array of historical and contemporary engagements with such texts and aims to open up the discussion of sacred texts by crossing traditional boundaries, bringing different disciplinary tools to the process of analysis, and opening up a sustained dialogue between and among scholars and others who are interested in religion, textuality, media, and mediation.