Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings by Watts, James W.

Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781781798843)

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Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings by Watts, James W.

Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings

$100.00
Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings by Watts, James W.

Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 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.

Author: James W. Watts
ISBN-10: 1781798842
ISBN-13: 9781781798843
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2020
Pages: 180
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By James W. Watts
By James W. Watts
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James W. Watts is Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. Yohan Yoo is Professor of Comparative Religion at Seoul National University. He is the author in Korean of Myths of Our Era (2012) and Religion, Symbolism, Human Beings (2014).

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