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- catalog abstract ""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 or her mind to be furnished and his or her heart instructed by a sacred text, understood in the light of an authoritative tradition. Memorization and recitation, lectio divina, legal and exegetical commentary, scholasticism, and a host of related practices fall under this rubric. Griffiths offers two case studies of religious reading, focusing on pedagogical practices and the use of literacy." "In examining and analyzing these practices, Griffiths develops a picture of the intellectual and moral commitments involved in being a religious person. Griffiths 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. He concludes with the controversial proposal that the modern university should make room for traditional scholastics."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11380649.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog 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 or her mind to be furnished and his or her heart instructed by a sacred text, understood in the light of an authoritative tradition. Memorization and recitation, lectio divina, legal and exegetical commentary, scholasticism, and a host of related practices fall under this rubric. Griffiths offers two case studies of religious reading, focusing on pedagogical practices and the use of literacy." "In examining and analyzing these practices, Griffiths develops a picture of the intellectual and moral commitments involved in being a religious person. Griffiths 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. He concludes with the controversial proposal that the modern university should make room for traditional scholastics."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Africa.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 210 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195125770 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa, North.".
- catalog spatial "India.".
- catalog subject "200 21".
- catalog subject "BL65.B66 G75 1999".
- catalog subject "Books and reading Africa, North.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading India.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading Religious aspects Buddhism.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading Religious aspects Christianity.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading Religious aspects Comparative studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Africa.".
- catalog title "Religious reading : the place of reading in the practice of religion / Paul J. Griffiths.".
- catalog type "text".