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Relic: Object Lessons

Autor Ed Simon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 ian 2024
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which stretches beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr, the tooth of a Buddhist lama, or the cloak of a Sufi saint, relics are material conduits to the immaterial world. Yet relics aren't just a feature of religion. The exact same sense of the transcendent animates objects of political, historical, and cultural significance.

From Abraham Lincoln's death mask to Vladimir Lenin's embalmed corpse, Emily Dickinson's envelopes to Jimi Hendrix's guitar pick, relics are the objects which the faithful understand as being more than just objects. Material things of sacred importance, relics are indicative of a culture's deepest values.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9798765102282
Pagini: 136
Dimensiuni: 120 x 164 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Object Lessons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: Theses on the Holy Faith

1. Religion
2. Politics
3. Creation
4. Fame
5. Memory

Index

Recenzii

Gently humorous, achingly humane.
Ed Simon is one of my favorite writers. Pick up any of his work and you are sure to be moved, astounded, delighted-and always you will learn something new. Relic is a fascinating sustained look at a subject some would prefer to look away from; it is about who we are, what we venerate, and how each of those considerations tends to shape the other.