From June 17-20, the international conference “Creating Holiness” will bring together researchers from across the world to discuss questions of what turns a book – or an icon of the Eastern churches – into a sacred object in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist cultures, and how sacredness is connected to the material.
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Andreas Lehnertz (June 15, 2024). Creating Holiness – Books, Scrolls and Icons as Carriers of Sacredness, 17-20th June International Conference, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz. medievalJewishStudiesNow! Retrieved November 11, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/11tzm