Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Representing the Sacred. Edited by Dawn Llewellyn and Deborah F. Sawyer
Therise in secular approaches to religious texts has also seen a refiguring of the boundaries between ‘secular’ and ‘sacred’ texts. If we can approach scripture using the same methodology as when we approach George Eliot, then why not read Middlemarch armed with the same questions as when we open Th...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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Literature and theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 368-370 |
| Review of: | Reading spiritualities (Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2008) (Fisk, Anna)
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Book review
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| Summary: | Therise in secular approaches to religious texts has also seen a refiguring of the boundaries between ‘secular’ and ‘sacred’ texts. If we can approach scripture using the same methodology as when we approach George Eliot, then why not read Middlemarch armed with the same questions as when we open The Book of Job? And why stop with great 19th century novels: what about rock lyrics, graffiti, television programmes? The postmodern reconceptualizing of ‘text’ perhaps entails an infinite multiplication of what may be defined as ‘sacred text.’, These are the issues addressed by Reading Spiritualities, a collection of essays edited by Lancaster University's Deborah F. Sawyer and Dawn Llewellyn. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frp027 |