Sabbath Reading
This essay considers the spiritual practices involved in literary reading. Literary texts ask readers to speak in voices not their own, to enact identities and temporalities beyond the ones we inhabit in the everyday. Those practices of enactment have much in common with Jewish and Christian Sabbath...
| Published in: | Christianity & literature |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2021
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Christianity & literature
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism CD Christianity and Culture |
| Further subjects: | B
Literature
B festivity B Sabbath |
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| Summary: | This essay considers the spiritual practices involved in literary reading. Literary texts ask readers to speak in voices not their own, to enact identities and temporalities beyond the ones we inhabit in the everyday. Those practices of enactment have much in common with Jewish and Christian Sabbath practices, in which celebrants likewise enact forms of life from beyond the economy of the present age. Imagining literary reading as a kind of Sabbath practice might help us to think in fresh ways, in our own present moment, about the forms of freedom, generosity, and renewal that our literary work makes possible. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2021.0026 |