Reading and Time: Two Approaches to the Materiality of Scripture

In this article I examine Christian approaches to conceptions of time as expressed in approaches to reading the Bible. The first main focus in this effort is upon the work of Saint Augustine, whose arguments about the connections between reading and time have been, as I try to show, very influential...

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Published inEthnos Vol. 74; no. 2; pp. 151 - 174
Main Author Engelke, Matthew
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basingstoke Routledge 01.06.2009
Taylor & Francis
Subjects
Anthropology of religion
Bible
Christianity
Exegesis and biblical criticism
General subjects
History and sciences of religions
Literacy
Materiality
Overall studies
Reading
Saints
Semiotics
Temporality
Time
Reading
Christian anthropology
Augustine of Hippo
Bible
Divine
Time
Christianity
Temporality
semiotics
materiality
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ISSN0014-1844
1469-588X
DOI10.1080/00141840902940450

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Summary:In this article I examine Christian approaches to conceptions of time as expressed in approaches to reading the Bible. The first main focus in this effort is upon the work of Saint Augustine, whose arguments about the connections between reading and time have been, as I try to show, very influential. The second main focus is more ethnographic in nature, and comes from my work in Zimbabwe on a small group of apostolic Christians whose views differ significantly from Augustine. These two cases are framed by some more general remarks on Christian temporalities, as well as a call for the newly-emerging interest in the anthropology of Christianity to take note of more general work on literacy and the ethnography of reading.
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ISSN:0014-1844
1469-588X
DOI:10.1080/00141840902940450