Ritualizing the size of books / James W. Watts -- On the functions of miniaturizing books in Jewish religion / Marianne Schleicher -- Words in a nutshell: miniaturizing texts in early modern England / Lucy Razzall -- Small things of greatest consequence: miniature Bibles in America / Dorina Miller Parmenter -- Diminutive divination and the implications of scale: a miniature Qurơanic Fulnama of the Safavid period / Heather Coffey -- Mite Qurơans for Indian markets: David Bryce in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century / Kristina Myrvold -- Miniature Qurơans in the First World War: religious comforts for Indian Muslim soldiers / Kristina Myrvold and Andreas Johansson -- Size matters: miniature mushafs and the landscape of affordances / Jonas Svensson -- Gitamahatmya!: paratexts in miniature Bhagavad Gitas with special reference to pictures and gender / Jon Skarpeid -- Sutras working in Buddha's belly and Buddhists' pockets: miniature Sutras in Korean Buddhism / Yohan Yoo and Woncheol Yun.
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Comparative research on iconic and performative texts
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