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Author : James Washington Watts,Yohan Yoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 1781798869
"In this volume, an international team of scholars addresses the theme of books as sacred beings"--
Author : James W. Watts,Yohan Yoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1781798850
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112039621534
Author : James Washington Watts
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1781795762
All the human senses become engaged in ritualizing sacred texts. These essays focus especially on ritualizing the iconic dimension of texts through the senses of sight, touch, kiss, and taste, both directly and in the imagination. Ritualized display of books engages the sense of sight very differently than does reading. Touching gets associated with reading scriptures, but touching also enables using the scripture as an amulet. Eating and consuming texts is a ubiquitous analogy for internalizing the contents of texts by reading and memorization. The idea of textual consumption reflects a widespread tendency to equate humans and written texts by their interiority and exteriority: books and people both have material bodies, yet both seem to contain immaterial ideas. Books thus physically incarnate cultural and religious values, doctrines, beliefs, and ideas. These essays bring theories of comparative scriptures and affect theory to bear on the topic as well as rich ethnographic descriptions of scriptural practices with Jewish, Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and modern art and historical accounts of changing practices with sacred texts in ancient and medieval China and Korea, and in ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures.
Author : Friedrich Max Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English literature
ISBN : MINN:31951002459564K
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081853131
Author : David Suzuki
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781926685496
In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of his best-selling book, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in nature and science — from global warming to the science behind mother/baby interactions — and examines what they mean for humankind’s place in the world. The book begins by presenting the concept of people as creatures of the Earth who depend on its gifts of air, water, soil, and sun energy. The author explains how people are genetically programmed to crave the company of other species, and how people suffer enormously when they fail to live in harmony with them. Suzuki analyzes those deep spiritual needs, rooted in nature, that are a crucial component of a loving world. Drawing on his own experiences and those of others who have put their beliefs into action, The Sacred Balance is a powerful, passionate book with concrete suggestions for creating an ecologically sustainable, satisfying, and fair future by rediscovering and addressing humanity’s basic needs.
Author : F. Max Muller
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0700706003
This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : English literature
ISBN : MSU:31293017045174
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081858676
Author : Friedrich Max Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106010273388
Author : Dawn Llewellyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317071075
The phenomenon of 'sacred text' has undergone radical deconstruction in recent times, reflecting how religion has broken out of its traditional definitions and practices, and how current literary theories have influenced texts inside the religious domain and beyond. Reading Spiritualities presents both commentary and vivid examples of this evolution, engaging with a variety of reading practices that work with traditional texts and those that extend the notion of 'text' itself. The contributors draw on a range of textual sites such as an interview, Caribbean literature, drama and jazz, women's writings, emerging church blogs, Neopagan websites, the reading practices of Buddhist nuns, empirical studies on the reading experiences of Gujarati, Christian and post-Christian women, Chicana short stories, the mosque, cinema, modern art and literature. These examples open up understandings of where and how 'sacred texts' are emerging and being reassessed within contemporary religious and spiritual contexts; and make room for readings where the spiritual resides not only in the textual, but in other unexpected places. Reading Spiritualities includes contributions from Graham Holderness, Ursula King, Michael N. Jagessar, David Jasper, Anthony G. Reddie, Michèle Roberts, and Heather Walton to reflect and encourage the interdisciplinary study of sacred text in the broad arena of the arts and social sciences. It offers a unique and well-focused 'snapshot' of the textual constructions and representations of the sacred within the contemporary religious climate - accessible to the general reader, as well as more specialist interests of students and researchers working in the crossover fields of religious, theological, cultural and literary studies.
Author : Ellis Parker Butler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387025644
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Samuel Humphreys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1332 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1735
Category : Bible
ISBN : OSU:32435074901372
Author : David Ganz,Barbara Schellewald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110558609
According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.