Sacred texts, scriptures and revered writings
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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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Miniature Books
Kristina Myrvold, Dorina Miller Parmenter, James W. Watts, Marianne Schleicher, Lucy Razzall, Heather Coffey, Andreas Johansson, Jonas Svensson, Jon Skarpeid, Yohan Yoo, Woncheol Yun
Kristina Myrvold, Dorina Miller Parmenter
Miniature books, handwritten or printed books in the smallest format, have fascinated religious people, printers, publishers, collectors, and others through the centuries because of their unique physical features, and continue to captivate people today. The small lettering and the delicate pages, bi...
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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...
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Gender and Sacred Textures
This anthology asks if - or how - the handling, use, and embodied enactments of sacred texts regulate, entangle, occlude, tolerate, or even subvert religious and gendered identities. While many studies have looked at the semantic content of sacred texts to answer this question, the volume mends a...