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Iconic Books from Below

Published:2012-06-27 Issue:1-3 Volume:6 Page:185-200
ISSN:1743-8888
Container-title:Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts
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Author:

Parmenter Dorina Miller

Abstract

Investigating the Christian Bible as “America’s Iconic Book” (following Marty 1982) reveals that this icon is generated and maintained not only through lofty theology and high church rituals, but also through mundane and often invisible biblical practices. By examining how people engage with their personal Bibles, scholars can better understand how status and authority is generated not only through semantic meaning, but also through material and embodied actions. This article looks at one example of this in contemporary American Evangelical Christianity: the display of worn-out Bibles and the discourses that surround the phenomena of duct-taped Bibles.

Publisher

Equinox Publishing

Subject

General Medicine

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