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Autobiography and Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Anthony Battaglia
Anthony Battaglia*
Affiliation:
California State University, Long Beach
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Abstract

The growing popularity of courses which use autobiographical materials as an introduction to the study of religion signals a changing cultural perception of what religion is. Whereas before religion was thought of in terms of faith in a supernatural being, now we are beginning to see that religion is any attempt to integrate our lives. This changed perception has important consequences for the Christian faith.

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Creative Teaching
Information
Horizons , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Spring 1975 , pp. 61 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © The College Theology Society 1975

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