Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion

by Lee Palmer Wandel

Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion makes two broad arguments. First, the sixteenth century witnessed a fundamental transformation in Christians', Catholic and Evangelical, conceptualization of the nature of knowledge of Christianity and the media through which that knowledge was articulated and communicated. Christians had shared a sense that knowledge might come through visions, images, liturgy; catechisms taught that knowledge of 'Christianity'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900430519X
• ISBN13: 9789004305199
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"