Relic

"Relic explores how a bit of bone, a scrap of rag, a chip of wood - the most prosaic of materials - have often been endowed by faith, tradition, and culture with a sense of the sacred"--

Main Author: Simon, Ed (Writer) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Series: Object lessons.
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Summary: "Relic explores how a bit of bone, a scrap of rag, a chip of wood - the most prosaic of materials - have often been endowed by faith, tradition, and culture with a sense of the sacred"--
Item Description: Includes index.
Physical Description: 124 pages ; 17 cm
ISBN: 9798765102282
Author Notes: Ed Simon is editor of Belt Magazine and emeritus staff writer at The Millions . His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Public Domain Review, The Hedgehog Review, JSTOR Daily, McSweeney's, Jacobin, The New Republic, Religion Dispatches, Killing the Buddha, and The Washington Post, among dozens of others. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology .