Miniature Books

Kristina Myrvold is Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus University in Sweden. Dorina Miller Parmenter is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.

• Religious Miniature Books: Introduction and OverviewKristina Myrvold and Dorina Miller Parmenter Chapter 1: Ritualizing the Size of BooksJames W. Watts, Syracuse University Chapter 2: On the Functions of Miniaturizing Books in Jewish ReligionMarianne Schleicher, Aarhus University Chapter 3: Words in a Nutshell: Miniaturizing Texts in Early Modern EnglandLucy Razzall, University College London Chapter 4: Small Things of Greatest Consequence: Miniature Bibles in AmericaDorina Miller Parmenter Chapter 5: Diminutive Divination and the Implications of Scale: A Miniature Quranic Falnama of the Safavid PeriodHeather Coffey, OCAD University, Canada Chapter 6: Mite Qurans for Indian Markets: David Bryce in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturyKristina Myrvold Chapter 7: Miniature Qurans in the First World War: Religious Comforts for Indian Muslim SoldiersKristina Myrvold and Andreas Johansson, Lund University Chapter 8: Size Matters! Miniature Mushafs and the Landscape of AffordancesJonas Svensson, Linnaeus University Chapter 9: Gitamahatmya! Paratexts in Miniature Bhagavad Gitas with Special Reference to Pictures and GenderJon Skarpeid, University of Stavanger, Norway Chapter 10: Sutras Working in Buddha’s Belly and Buddhists’ Pockets: Miniature Sutras in Korean BuddhismYohan Yoo and Woncheol Yun, both at Seoul National University