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| The Death of Sacred Texts: Ritual Disposal and Renovation of Texts in World Religions | ||
| 作者 | Myrvold, Kristina (編) ; Myrvold, Kristina (引言) |
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| 出版日期 | 2010.05.28 |
| 頁次 | 172 |
| 出版者 | Ashgate Publishing |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.publishersglobal.com/directory/publisher-profile/1556 |
| 出版地 | London, England, UK [倫敦, 英格蘭, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 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. |
| 摘要 | 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. |
| 目次 | List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 1 Accounts of a Dying Scroll: On Jewish Handling of Sacred Texts in Need of Restoration or Disposal 11 2 Relation, Revering, and Removing: Muslim Views on the Use, Power, and Disposal of Divine Words 31 3 A Fitting Ceremony: Christian Concerns for Bible Disposal 55 4 The Death of the Dharma: Buddhist Sutra Burials in Early Medieval Japan 71 5 Rites of Burial and Immersion: Hindu Ritual Practices on Disposing of Sacred Texts in Vrindavan 91 6 Is a Manuscript and Object or a Living Being?: Jain Views on the life and Use of Sacred Texts 107 7 Making the Scripture a Person: Reinventing Death Rituals of Guru Granth Sahib in Sikhism 125 8 Disposing of Non-Disposable Texts: Conclusions and Prospects for Further Study 147 Index 161 |
| ISBN | 0754669181 (hc); 9780754669180 (hc) |
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| 點閱次數 | 110 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.11.01 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.11.06 |
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