Talk:Religious literacy

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Criticisms[edit]

The article should maybe include valuable criticism of the concept of religious literacy. From an evolutionary psychological or anthropological perpsective, there is no such thing as religious literacy, since the majority of primitive religions did not really have scriptures and stuck to their changing rituals. The same criticism could be applied to the notion of philosophical literacy, since philosophers are often revising their notions of accepted wisdom. However, the article could still include useful sociological material about how people from a mainstream religious background have knowlededge of their own scriptures, or how they understand the traditions and views of people of other religious backgrounds. ADM (talk) 15:29, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That does'nt make any sense. Correct me if i'm wrong, but did the above commentator confuse "literacy" with "literalism"? Quote from the article: "Religious literacy is the knowledge of, and ability to understand, religion." If anything, the articles description is too abstract to opt for "criticism" on, since the meaning of "the ability to understand religion" would ofcourse be impossible to define in a precise way that is unbiased and objective. To say that "an evolutionary psychological or anthropological perspective" does not make any sence if the commentator actually did not confuse those terms. --Justathought (talk) 15:35, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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{OTRS Pending}[edit]

Adding information from the Religious Literacy Project's webpage to the "religious literacy" wikipage. {OTRS PENDING} R.L.Robison (talk) 00:44, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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