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20240716124141.0 |
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190204s2019 enk b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781847924322 |
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1847924328 |
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9781847924315 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
184792431X |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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AU@ |
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AU@ |
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rda |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
208.2 |
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K A R |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Armstrong, Karen, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1944- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The lost art of scripture : |
| Remainder of title |
rescuing the sacred texts / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Karen Armstrong. |
| 246 30 - Varying Form of Title |
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| Title proper/short title |
Rescuing the sacred texts |
| 264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
The Bodley Head, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
x, 549 pages. |
| 336 ## - Content Type |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - Media Type |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-494) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Cosmos and society -- Israel: remembering in order to belong -- India: sound and silence -- China: rites first, spirits second -- Mythos -- New story; new self -- Empathy -- Unknowing -- Canon -- Midrash -- Embodiment -- Recitation and Intentio -- Ineffability -- Logos -- Sola Scriptura -- Sola Ratio -- Post-Scripture. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Today the Quran is used by some to justify war and acts of terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The significance of Scripture--the holy texts at the centre of all religious traditions--may not be immediately obvious in our secular world but its misunderstanding is perhaps the root cause of most of today's controversies over religion. In this timely and important book, one of the world's leading commentators on religious affairs examines the meaning of Scripture. Today holy texts are not only used selectively to underwrite sometimes arbitrary and subjective views: they are seen to prescribe ethical norms and codes of behaviour that are divinely ordained--they are believed to contain eternal truths. But as Karen Armstrong shows in this fascinating trawl through millennia of religious history, this peculiar reading of Scripture is a relatively recent, modern phenomenon--and in many ways, a reaction to a hostile secular world. For most of their history, the world's religious traditions have regarded these texts as tools for the individual to connect with the divine, to transcend their physical existence, and to experience a higher level of consciousness that helped them to engage with the world in more meaningful and compassionate ways. Scripture was not a 'truth' that had to be 'believed.' Armstrong argues that only if the world's religious faiths rediscover such an open and spiritual engagement with their holy texts can they curtail the arrogance, intolerance and violence that flows from a narrow reading of Scripture as truth. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Religions. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Sacred books |
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Religion and culture. |
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Religion and culture. |
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fast |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Religions. |
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fast |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Sacred books. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
