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The Death of Sacred Texts - Ritual Disposal and Renovation of Texts in World Religions (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Death of Sacred Texts - Ritual Disposal and Renovation of Texts in World Religions (Hardcover, New edition)
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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
and cultures. Considering religious people seem to have all the
motives for giving their sacred texts a respectful symbolic
treatment, scholars have paid surprisingly little attention to the
ritual procedures of disposing and renovating old texts. This book
fills this gap, providing empirical data and theoretical analyses
of historical and contemporary religious attitudes towards, and
practices of text disposals within, seven world religions: Judaism,
Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.
Exploring the cultural and historical variations of rituals for
religious scriptures and texts (such as burials, cremations and
immersion into rivers) and the underlying beliefs within the
religious traditions, this book investigates how these religious
practices and stances respond to modernization and globalization
processes when new technologies have made it possible to
mass-produce and publish religious texts on the Internet.
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