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    Relic by Simon, Ed;

    Series: Object Lessons;

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    Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 11 January 2024
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9798765102282
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages136 pages
    • Size 164x120x14 mm
    • Weight 131 g
    • Language English
    • 641

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    Long description:

    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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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction: Theses on the Holy Faith

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

    Index

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