Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts – serie
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Miniature Books
The Format and Function of Tiny Religious Texts
Av Kristina Myrvold, Dorina Miller Parmenter
Häftad, 2019
487 kr
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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, …
Iconic Books and Texts
Av James Watts, James W. Watts
Häftad, 2015
389 kr
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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 …
Sensing Sacred Texts
Inbunden, 2018
1237 kr
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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 …
Sensing Sacred Texts
Häftad, 2018
389 kr
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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 …
Reframing Authority
The Role of Media and Materiality
Av Laura Feldt, Christian Hogel
Inbunden, 2018
1198 kr
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Questions of authority are perennial. Authority has been and still is a key topic in many studies of history, society, literature, and religion, just as it is a key issue in contemporary societies. In spite of the scholarly attention, authority continues to have an elusive quality. Reframing …
Reframing Authority
The Role of Media and Materiality
Av Laura Feldt, Christian Høgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
413 kr
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Questions of authority are perennial. Authority has been and still is a key topic in many studies of history, society, literature, and religion, just as it is a key issue in contemporary societies. In spite of the scholarly attention, authority continues to have an elusive quality. Reframing …
How and Why Books Matter
Essays on the Social Function of Iconic Texts
Inbunden, 2019
1237 kr
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Religious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic interpretation through teaching, preaching, and scholarly commentary. This dimension receives almost all the attention of academic scholars. Communities also ritualize a …
How and Why Books Matter
Essays on the Social Function of Iconic Texts
Häftad, 2019
381 kr
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Religious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic interpretation through teaching, preaching, and scholarly commentary. This dimension receives almost all the attention of academic scholars. Communities also ritualize a …
Miniature Books
The Format and Function of Tiny Religious Texts
Av Kristina Myrvold, Dorina Miller Parmenter
Inbunden, 2019
1237 kr
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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, …
Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings
Inbunden, 2020
1053 kr
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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 …
Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings
Häftad, 2020
503 kr
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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 …
Korean Religious Texts in Iconic and Performative Rituals
Inbunden, 2024
1237 kr
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This book investigates how scriptures are accepted and appropriated by religious people in Korea and demonstrates how sacred status of scriptures are attained and their power is exercised. Examples of Korean religions, including Protestantism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shamanism turned out to be …
Korean Religious Texts in Iconic and Performative Rituals
Häftad, 2024
391 kr
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This book investigates how scriptures are accepted and appropriated by religious people in Korea and demonstrates how sacred status of scriptures are attained and their power is exercised. Examples of Korean religions, including Protestantism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shamanism turned out to be …
Gender and Sacred Textures
Entanglements of Materiality, Embodiment, and Sacred Texts in Religious Identities
Av Marianne Schleicher, Marianne Schleicher
Inbunden, 2025
1077 kr
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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 …
Gender and Sacred Textures
Entanglements of Materiality, Embodiment, and Sacred Texts in Religious Identities
Häftad, 2025
391 kr
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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 …
Iconic Books and Texts
Inbunden, 2013
1211 kr
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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 …
