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They have been joined by dozens of
scholars who have participated in symposia on
Iconic Books and in the programming of SCRIPT, the Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts (see links at
left). Their interdisciplinary discussions
produced papers that published in the
journal Postscripts
in 2011 and as a volume of essays, Iconic
Books and Texts, by Equinox in 2013.
The project's collecting and cataloguing
activities aim to do basic research, but its
study of iconic books has implications for
understanding phenomena as diverse as the
marketing of e-books, political ceremonies,
legal conflicts over religion, artistic and
media depictions of books, the reproduction of
scriptures, the architecture of libraries and
museums, radical religious uses of media images,
the relationship between image and text, the
role of religion in law, and the historical
influence of “book religions.”
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