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Kristina (Hrsg.) Myrvold

The Death of Sacred Texts

Ritual Disposal and Renovation of Texts in World Religions

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The Death of Sacred Texts draws attention to a much neglected topic in the study of sacred texts: the religious and ritual attitudes towards texts which have become old and damaged and can no longer be used for reading practices or in religious worship. This book approaches religious texts and scriptures by focusing on their physical properties and the dynamic interactions of devices and habits that lie beneath and within a given text. In the last decades a growing body of research studies has directed attention to the multiple uses and ways people encounter written texts and how they make them alive, even as social actors, in different times… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-317-03640-1
  • EAN: 9781317036401
  • Produktnummer: 20172778
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 182 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 13'230 KB

Über den Autor


Kristina Myrvold is Assistant Professor of History and Anthropology of Religion at the Center for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on religious practices, identity formation and historiography among the Sikhs in India and in different diasporic settings. She is the author of Inside the Guru's Gate: Ritual Uses of Texts Among the Sikhs in Varanasi (2007) and co-editor of a forthcoming publication about the Sikhs in Europe.

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