| Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion Contributor(s): Griffiths, Paul J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195125770 ISBN-13: 9780195125771 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $166.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: 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 favorably 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Religion | Comparative Religion - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 200 |
| LCCN: 98-17108 |
| Lexile Measure: 1410 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.32" W x 9.38" (1.19 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 favorably 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. |