Book contents
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Analysing Religious Discourse: Introduction
- 2 Interaction
- 3 Ethnography
- 4 Narrative
- 5 Multimodality
- 6 Rhetoric
- 7 Translation
- 8 Institutions
- 9 Media
- 10 Community
- 11 Education
- 12 Inter-religious Dialogue
- 13 Rituals
- 14 Metaphor
- 15 Emotion
- 16 Identity
- 17 Cognition
- 18 Sacred Texts
- 19 Ecology
- 20 Conclusion
- Key Terms
- References
18 - Sacred Texts
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Book contents
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Analysing Religious Discourse: Introduction
- 2 Interaction
- 3 Ethnography
- 4 Narrative
- 5 Multimodality
- 6 Rhetoric
- 7 Translation
- 8 Institutions
- 9 Media
- 10 Community
- 11 Education
- 12 Inter-religious Dialogue
- 13 Rituals
- 14 Metaphor
- 15 Emotion
- 16 Identity
- 17 Cognition
- 18 Sacred Texts
- 19 Ecology
- 20 Conclusion
- Key Terms
- References
Summary
Introduces the key concept of sacred texts and their role in religious belief and practice, focusing specifically on how the reading of sacred texts can create a spatial and temporal experience of the divine for readers.
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- Analysing Religious Discourse , pp. 311 - 327Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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