Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
• In this volume an international team of scholars address the theme of books as sacred beings from an impressively diverse range of primary material an... Lees meer

Miniature Books

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
• Miniature books, handwritten or printed books in the smallest format, have fascinated religious people, printers, publishers, collectors, and others t... Lees meer

Sensing Sacred Texts

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
• All the human senses become engaged in ritualizing sacred texts. These essays focus especially on ritualizing the iconic dimension of texts through th... Lees meer

Reframing Authority

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
• Questions of authority are perennial. Authority has been and still is a key topic in many studies of history, society, literature, and religion, just ... Lees meer

How and Why Books Matter

James W Watts

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
• Religious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic interpretation throu... Lees meer

Miniature Books

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
• Miniature books, handwritten or printed books in the smallest format, have fascinated religious people, printers, publishers, collectors, and others t... Lees meer

How and Why Books Matter

James W Watts

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
• Religious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic interpretation throu... Lees meer