The Death of Sacred Texts (eBook, ePUB)

Ritual Disposal and Renovation of Texts in World Religions
Redaktion: Myrvold, Kristina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 and 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317036395
• Artikelnr.: 44864629

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Kristina Myrvold; Accounts of a dying scroll: on
Jewish handling of sacred texts in need of restoration or disposal,
Marianne Schleicher; Relating, revering and removing: Muslim views on the
use, power and disposal of divine words, Jonas Svensson; A fitting
ceremony: Christian concerns for Bible disposal, Dorina Miller Parmenter;
The death of the Dharma: Buddhist sutra burials in early medieval Japan, D.
Max Moerman; Rites of burial and immersion: Hindu rituals on disposing of
sacred texts in Vrindavan, MÃ¥ns Broo; Is a manuscript an object or a
living being?: Jain views on the life and use of sacred texts, Nalini
Balbir; Making the scripture a person: reinventing death rituals of Guru
Granth Sahib in Sikhism, Kristina Myrvold; Disposing of non-disposable
texts: conclusions and prospects for further study, James W. Watts; Index.