Contemplative – Transformative – Reading, with Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard Divinity School

April 03, 2023 00:42:36
Contemplative – Transformative – Reading, with Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard Divinity School
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Contemplative – Transformative – Reading, with Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard Divinity School

Apr 03 2023 | 00:42:36

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Show Notes

Stephanie Paulsell is Susan Shallcross Swarz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School and Faculty Dean of Eliot House at Harvard College. The author of a book on Virginia Woolf, the editor of a book on Toni Morrison, and writer of articles on many other literary figures as well as on Biblical texts, her work focuses on religion and literature, particularly on the spiritually formative dimensions of the practices of reading and writing. We speak today about an article on contemplative reading she published in a book titled The Soul of Higher Education.

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