
Deep Reading
Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age
Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
Published on 16. July 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-5409-6695-7 (ISBN)
Description
Arlin G. Meyer Book Award Winner
Christianity Today 2025 Book Award Finalist (Culture, Poetry, and the Arts)
"Show[s] how deep reading habits help us manage distraction and bring about individual and communal flourishing."--Christianity Today
This book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth.
The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural vices--distraction, hostility, and consumerism--that impact the possibility of formative reading. Informed by James K. A. Smith's work on "the spiritual power of habit," Deep Reading provides resources for engaging in formative and culturally subversive reading practices that teach readers how to resist vices, love virtue, and desire the good.
Rather than emphasizing the spiritual benefits of reading specific texts such as Dante's Divine Comedy or Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the authors focus on the practice of reading itself. They examine practices many teachers, students, and avid readers employ--such as reading lists, reading logs, and discussion--and demonstrate how such practices can be more effectively and intentionally harnessed to result in deep reading. The practices apply to any work that is meant to be read deeply.
Christianity Today 2025 Book Award Finalist (Culture, Poetry, and the Arts)
"Show[s] how deep reading habits help us manage distraction and bring about individual and communal flourishing."--Christianity Today
This book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth.
The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural vices--distraction, hostility, and consumerism--that impact the possibility of formative reading. Informed by James K. A. Smith's work on "the spiritual power of habit," Deep Reading provides resources for engaging in formative and culturally subversive reading practices that teach readers how to resist vices, love virtue, and desire the good.
Rather than emphasizing the spiritual benefits of reading specific texts such as Dante's Divine Comedy or Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the authors focus on the practice of reading itself. They examine practices many teachers, students, and avid readers employ--such as reading lists, reading logs, and discussion--and demonstrate how such practices can be more effectively and intentionally harnessed to result in deep reading. The practices apply to any work that is meant to be read deeply.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ada, MI
United States
Publishing group
Baker Publishing Group
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5409-6695-7 (9781540966957)
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Persons
Rachel B. Griffis (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of English at Spring Arbor University in Spring Arbor, Michigan.
Julie Ooms (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of English at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Rachel M. De Smith Roberts (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of English at North Greenville University in Tigerville, South Carolina.
Julie Ooms (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of English at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Rachel M. De Smith Roberts (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of English at North Greenville University in Tigerville, South Carolina.
Content
Introduction: Learning to Read
Part 1: Practices to Subvert Distraction
1. Paying Attention: Reading Practices to Cultivate Temperance
2. Attentive Reading Processes for the Digital Age
Part 2: Practices to Subvert Hostility
3. Beyond the Diverse Reading List: Inclusive Practices to Cultivate Listeners
4. Beyond Dogmatism: Prudent Reading Practices for Interpreting Worldviews
Part 3: Practices to Subvert Consumerism
5. What Readers Bring to the Community: Conversation as Gift Giving
6. Being a Human: Learning to Read for Enjoyment
Conclusion: Learning to Reread
Index
Part 1: Practices to Subvert Distraction
1. Paying Attention: Reading Practices to Cultivate Temperance
2. Attentive Reading Processes for the Digital Age
Part 2: Practices to Subvert Hostility
3. Beyond the Diverse Reading List: Inclusive Practices to Cultivate Listeners
4. Beyond Dogmatism: Prudent Reading Practices for Interpreting Worldviews
Part 3: Practices to Subvert Consumerism
5. What Readers Bring to the Community: Conversation as Gift Giving
6. Being a Human: Learning to Read for Enjoyment
Conclusion: Learning to Reread
Index