Reading and time: Two approaches to the materiality of scripture

Ethnos

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-174

  Engelke, Matthew ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Christianity; Materiality; Reading; Semiotics; Temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149173360     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840902940450     Document Type: Article

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