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 Africa -- Conclusion
Summary
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 sacred text
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index