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The demise of Sacred Texts attracts cognizance to a miles ignored subject within the learn of sacred texts: the non secular and formality attitudes in the direction of texts that have grow old and broken and will not be used for examining practices or in non secular worship. This ebook ways non secular texts and scriptures through targeting their actual houses and the dynamic interactions of units and conduct that lie underneath and inside a given textual content. within the final a long time a growing to be physique of study reports has directed realization to the a number of makes use of and methods humans stumble upon written texts and the way they lead them to alive, at the same time social actors, in numerous instances and cultures. contemplating non secular humans appear to have all of the explanations for giving their sacred texts a deferential symbolic therapy, students have paid strangely little consciousness to the ritual tactics of disposing and renovating outdated texts. This publication fills this hole, offering empirical facts and theoretical analyses of ancient and modern non secular attitudes in the direction of, and practices of textual content disposals inside of, seven global religions: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Exploring the cultural and historic diversifications of rituals for spiritual scriptures and texts (such as burials, cremations and immersion into rivers) and the underlying ideals in the non secular traditions, this ebook investigates how those spiritual practices and stances reply to modernization and globalization techniques while new applied sciences have made it attainable to mass-produce and post spiritual texts at the Internet.