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Title |
Title of document |
How Books Matter: The Three Dimensions of Scriptures - How and Why Books Matter |
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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) |
religious texts; manipulation of books; presentation of books; performance of books; social value of books; books in society;books and hte media; scriptures; iconic texts; literacy |
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Subject classification |
Religious Texts; Cultural Studies |
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Description |
Abstract |
The first chapter presents a model for understanding the ways in which scriptures function. Recent controversies over Ten Commandments monuments and desecrated Qur’ans involve the iconic function of scriptures. Yet traditional and modern scholarship on Jewish, Christian, or Muslim scriptures is ill-prepared to interpret these events because it has focused almost all its efforts on semantic interpretation. Even the increased attention to the expressive functions of scripture does not provide resources for understanding the iconic roles of scriptures. This chapter addresses that gap by theorizing the nature of scriptures as a function of their ritualization in three dimensions—semantic, expressive, and iconic. The model provides a way to understand how traditions ritualize scriptures and how they claim social power by doing so. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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25-Jun-2019 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/35882 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.35882 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; How and Why Books Matter |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |