Religious reading the place of reading in the practice of religion

What social conditions and intellectual practices are necessary in order for religious cultures to flourish? In this text, the author 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 sac...

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Main Author: Griffiths, Paul J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1999, 1999
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