Sensing Sacred Texts
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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78179-575-0
- EAN: 9781781795750
- Produktnummer: 26631674
- Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.7 cm 631 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 631
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