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Literacy & Books: Shaping Religious Experience

August 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Axial Age, Cultural Evolution, Definitions, History

Over at The Atlantic, Heather Horn interviews Andrew Pettegree, who has just written a history of the book titled The Book in the Renaissance.  After pondering the (bright) future of books, they discuss the profound ways in which vernacular books and a literate public forever changed religious experience:
But one mustn’t ignore that the mainstay of [...]

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