Religious reading : the place of reading in the practice of religion
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Religious reading : the place of reading in the practice of religion
Oxford University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
What social conditions and intellectual practices are necessary in order for religious cultures to flourish? Paul Griffiths finds the answer in 'religious reading' - the kind of reading in which a religious believer allows his mind to be furnished and his heart instructed by a sacred text, understood in the light of an authoritative tradition. He favourably contrasts the practices and pedagogies of traditional religious cultures with those of our own fragmented and
secularized culture and insists that religious reading should be preserved.
Table of Contents
1: Religion
2: Religion and Literary Work
3: The Context of Religious Reading
4: The Fundamental Genres of Religious Reading
5: Commentary and Anthology in Buddhist India
6: Commentary and Anthology in Roman Africa
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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