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How and Why Books Matter: Complete

Collection created December 2023

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Watts/How and Why Books Matter, 10. Why Books Matter: Preservation and Disposal
Uploaded December, 2023
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- book chapter
- how and why books matter
- books
- libraries
- reading
- cultural heritage
Watts/How and Why Books Matter, 9. Mass Literacy and Scholarly Expertise
Uploaded December, 2023
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- book chapter
- how and why books matter
- iconic texts
- literacy
- authority
- interpretation
- scholarship
- elites
Watts/How and Why Books Matter, 3. Relic Texts
Uploaded December, 2023
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- book chapter
- how and why books matter
- legitimation
- relics
- identity
- iconic texts
- specificity
- commodification
- sui generic
- nationalism
- social formation
- relic texts
Watts/How and Why Books Matter, 2. Iconic Books and Texts
Uploaded December, 2023
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- book chapter
- how and why books matter
- iconic texts
- iconicity
- theories of religion
- ritualization
- copying
- replication
- publication
- materiality
- legitimation
- cultural memory
Watts/How and why Books Matter, 4. Iconic Digital Texts: How Rituals Materialize Virtual Texts
Uploaded December, 2023
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- book chapter
- how and why books matter
- digital culture
- iconic texts
- materiality
- ritualization
- theories of religion
- digital religion
- purity
Watts/How and Why Books Matter, 5.Desecrated Scriptures and the News Media
Uploaded December, 2023
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- book chapter
- how and why books matter
- iconic texts
- ritualization
- religion and violence
- media/press
- desecration
Watts/How and Why Books Matter, 6. Ancient Iconic Texts
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- book chapter
- how and why books matter
- iconic texts
- ancient world
- writing
- ancient near east
- mesopotamia
- ancient egypt
- torah
- judaism
- biblical studies
- heavenly texts
- documentation
- trade
- power
- scribal class
Watts/How and Why Books Matter, 7. Rival Iconic Texts: Ten Commandments Monuments and the U.S. Constitution
Uploaded December, 2023
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- book chapter
- how and why books matter
- iconic texts
- religion and politics
- pluralism
- united states
- us constitution
- nationalism
Watts/How and Why Books Matter, 8. Book Aniconism: The Codex, Translation and Beliefs about Immaterial Texts
Uploaded December, 2023
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- book chapter
- how and why books matter
- aniconicity
- books
- materiality
- idolatry
- purity
- christianity
- codex
- translation
- spirituality
- mysticism
- unembodied
Watts/How and Why How Books Matter, 1. The Three Dimensions of Scriptures
Uploaded December, 2023
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- book chapter
- how and why books matter
- iconicity
- iconic text
- scripture
- scripturalism
- ritual texts
- ritualization
- traditions
- authority
- performance
- expression
- recitation
- semantics
- totemism
- books
- text
- icons
- modalities
- rhetoric
- persuasion
- theories of religion

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