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Title |
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Rival Iconic Texts: Ten Commandments Monuments and the U.S. Constitution - 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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Religious Studies |
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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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Religious Texts; Cultural Studies |
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Description |
Abstract |
The legal and political controversy over Ten Commandments monuments in the United States revolves around iconic texts holding a discrete symbolic value compared to texts whose function is primarily to be read. A comparative perspective on iconic texts reveals that the nation’s founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, have also been increasingly turned into monumental icons over the last half-century. The Ten Commandments controversy can therefore be understood as the competition between iconic texts for symbolic supremacy. At stake in this struggle is how the nation will represent the government’s relationship to the many religions represented within its population. |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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25-Jun-2019 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
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https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/35888 |
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10.1558/equinox.35888 |
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Equinox eBooks Publishing; How and Why Books Matter |
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English=en |
en |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |