James W. Watts
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Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings
James W. Watts, Yohan Yoo, Katharina Wilkens, Bradford A. Anderson, Dorina Miller Parmenter, Rachel Fell McDermott, Virginia Burrus, Jason Neelis, Jihyun Kim
In this volume an international team of scholars address the theme of books as sacred beings from an impressively diverse range of primary material and perspectives. Yet, as a group, they meld to engage and advance previous research to solidify the conclusion that human cultures, especially religiou...
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Iconic Books and Texts
James W. Watts, William A. Graham, Deirdre C. Stam, Dorina Miller Parmenter, Michelle P. Brown, S. Brent Plate, Zeev Elitzur, Jacob Kinnard, M. Patrick Graham, Natalia K. Suit, Timothy Beal, Shawn Loner, Kristina Myrvold, Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Yohan Yoo, Brian Malley, Karl Ivan Solibakke, Philip P. Arnold, Jason T. Larson, Claudia V. Camp
Images of books appear in art, advertising and commercial logos to symbolize learning, knowledge and wisdom. In religious and secular rituals around the globe, people carry, show, wave, touch and kiss books and other texts, as well as read them. Such images and rituals utilize the iconic dimension o...
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Sensing Sacred Texts
All the human senses become engaged in ritualizing sacred texts. These essays focus especially on ritualizing the iconic dimension of texts through the senses of sight, touch, kiss, and taste, both directly and in the imagination. Ritualized display of books engages the sense of sight very different...