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Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings

Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings

Yoo, Yohan
Watts, James W.

Hardcover

Series: Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts

Comparative ReligionGeneral Antiques & Collectibles

ISBN10: 1781798842
ISBN13: 9781781798843
Publisher: Equinox Pub
Published: Oct 1 2020
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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 religious groups, often ritualize bodies as sacred books and books as divine beings. The studies collected here not only increase the range of examples of this phenomenon. They also show the wide variety of ways in which the identity of books, bodies and beings gets both ritualized and theorized. The articles are bracketed by an introduction to the collection, and then by a concluding essay that extrapolates the theme of books as sacred beings on a more general level.

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