Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion

by Paul J. Griffiths

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195125770

ISBN13:9780195125771

Release Date:May 1999

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences

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