Miniature Books

The Format and Function of Tiny Religious Texts

Buch | Softcover

246 Seiten

2019
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78179-861-4 (ISBN)

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Miniature books, handwritten or printed books in the smallest format, have fascinated religious people, printers, publishers, collectors, and others through the centuries because of their unique physical features, and continue to captivate people today. The small lettering and the delicate pages, binding, and covers highlight the material form of texts and invite sensory engagement and appreciation. This volume addresses miniature books with a special focus on religious books in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The book presents various empirical contexts for how the smallest books have been produced, distributed, and used in different times and cultures and also provides theoretical reflections and comments that discuss the divergent formats and functions of books.

Kristina Myrvold is Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus University in Sweden. Dorina Miller Parmenter is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.

Religious Miniature Books: Introduction and Overview
Kristina Myrvold and Dorina Miller Parmenter

Chapter 1: Ritualizing the Size of Books
James W. Watts, Syracuse University

Chapter 2: On the Functions of Miniaturizing Books in Jewish Religion
Marianne Schleicher, Aarhus University

Chapter 3: Words in a Nutshell: Miniaturizing Texts in Early Modern England
Lucy Razzall, University College London

Chapter 4: Small Things of Greatest Consequence: Miniature Bibles in America
Dorina Miller Parmenter

Chapter 5: Diminutive Divination and the Implications of Scale: A Miniature Quranic Falnama of the Safavid Period
Heather Coffey, OCAD University, Canada

Chapter 6: Mite Qurans for Indian Markets: David Bryce in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Kristina Myrvold

Chapter 7: Miniature Qurans in the First World War: Religious Comforts for Indian Muslim Soldiers
Kristina Myrvold and Andreas Johansson, Lund University

Chapter 8: Size Matters! Miniature Mushafs and the Landscape of Affordances
Jonas Svensson, Linnaeus University

Chapter 9: Gitamahatmya! Paratexts in Miniature Bhagavad Gitas with Special Reference to Pictures and Gender
Jon Skarpeid, University of Stavanger, Norway

Chapter 10: Sutras Working in Buddha’s Belly and Buddhists’ Pockets: Miniature Sutras in Korean Buddhism
Yohan Yoo and Woncheol Yun, both at Seoul National University

Erscheinungsdatum	18.03.2019
Reihe/Serie	Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 233 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-78179-861-3 / 1781798613
ISBN-13	978-1-78179-861-4 / 9781781798614
Zustand	Neuware