Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings

Human cultures, especially religious groups but also secular artists and performers, often ritualize bodies as sacred books and books as divine beings. An international team of scholars addresses this theme of books as sacred beings in this volume through an impressively diverse range of primary material and perspectives. These studies show the wide variety of ways in which books, bodies, and beings intermingle in material sacred texts manipulated by human bodies, and also in literary and artistic depictions of transcendent textual bodies. The boundary between material immanence and spiritual transcendence turns out to be very thin indeed when people use books. The chapters on specific book practices in different cultures are bracketed by an introduction to the collection and by a concluding essay that extrapolates on the widespread theme of books as sacred beings.

Info autore

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).

Riassunto

An international team of scholars addresses this theme of books as sacred beings in this volume through an impressively diverse range of primary material and perspectives.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: James W Watts (Editore), James W Watts (Editore), James W. Watts (Editore), Yohan Yoo (Editore)
• Editore: BookSource
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781781798843
• ISBN: 978-1-78179-884-3
• Peso: 535 g
• Illustrazioni: 14 colour figures
• Serie: Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni; comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Books, Sacred texts, Sacred texts, scriptures and revered writings