Holy pleather: materializing authority in contemporary orthodox Jewish publishing

ArtScroll—a major contemporary Orthodox Jewish publishing house based in Brooklyn, New York—offers a compelling case for studying the role of materiality in religious print culture. This essay draws upon actor-network theory to examine the "material agency" of key ArtScroll publications, s...

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Main Author: Stolow, Jeremy 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2007]
In: Material religion
Year: 2007, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 314-335
Further subjects:B Text-Centrism
B Orthodox Judaism
B material agency
B religious authenticity
B Artscroll
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