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Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts Supporting multidisciplinary scholarship in iconic books material scripture and social bibliography. SCRIPT was founded in 2010 to encourage new scholarship on iconic and performative texts. Our goal is to foster academic discourse about the social functions of books and texts that exceed their semantic meaning and interpretation such as their display as cultural artifacts their ritual use in religious and political ceremonies their performance by recitation and theater and their depiction in art. The society sponsors programming at existing regional and international scholarly meetings and at colleges and universities.