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Table of Contents - Sacred Narratives and Texts

RELIG-ST 484 Sacred Narratives and Texts

This course addresses the ""social lives"" of sacred narratives and texts in selected religions of the world. Areas of study include methods of exegesis in different religious traditions, orality and literacy (including the reoralization of written text), the canonization process, text as amulets, reading and meditative practices and techniques, and narratives and the arts. The course is comparative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary in nature.

Faculty: College of Arts & Sciences

Department: History

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