'Well-being' through reading: drawing upon literature and literacy in spiritual education

In this paper reading is conceived as a spiritual gift that can help readers towards an understanding of being. The image of the well and the act of drawing water is employed to illustrate the relation of the spiritual and the aesthetic. The term 'well-being' in relation to reading is used...

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Published inInternational journal of children's spirituality Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 155 - 162
Main Author Pike, Mark A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.09.2004
Routledge
Subjects
Aesthetic
Aesthetics
Biblical Literature
Heidegger
Literacy
Literature
Philosophy
Reader Response
Reading
Religious Factors
Spiritual
Spiritual Development
Well Being
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Summary:In this paper reading is conceived as a spiritual gift that can help readers towards an understanding of being. The image of the well and the act of drawing water is employed to illustrate the relation of the spiritual and the aesthetic. The term 'well-being' in relation to reading is used here to draw attention to the importance of ontology in both reading and spiritual education. How readers can practice reading as a spiritual gift is explored with reference to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), reader-response theory and selected biblical passages.
ISSN:1364-436X
1469-8455
DOI:10.1080/1364436042000234350