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

Paul J. Griffiths

ISBN 10: 0195125770 / ISBN 13: 9780195125771

Published by Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, 1999

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224 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the the Practice of Religion
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195125770
• ISBN 13: 9780195125771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.55 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Paul J. Griffiths is at University of Chicago Divinity School.