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Title |
Title of document |
Books as Sacred Beings - Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
James Watts; Syracuse University; United States |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
sacred texts; sacred books; ritual; sacred bodies; embodied religion; Kali; Tantric; Qur'an; saint; Seolwi-seolgyeong; Gandhara; Dao; icon |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Sacred Texts |
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Description |
Abstract |
The tendency of books to be ascribed agency like people and deities leads James Watts, in the last chapter, to explore why that is. Books manifest interiority like people: we speak of both as material containers for immaterial ideas. Books also generate common out-of-body experiences, they can be reproduced in multiple copies, and encountering them often changes us. Books are therefore material artifacts whose common use generates analogies that reinforce widespread hopes for bodily transcendence, resurrection or reincarnation, and theophany. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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18-Oct-2021 |
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Type |
Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/books/article/view/38099 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.38099 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |