Bruce Lincoln’s “How to Read a Religious Text”: An Experiment of Application

What is it about?

Lincoln’s “How to Read a Religious Text” is anchored in decades of work with mythological texts or canonical texts. The article applies Lincoln’s six lines of inquiry to African Methodist Episcopal Church General Superintendent Sara J. Duncan’s compendium, Progressive Missions in the South and Addresses: With Illustrations and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and Bishop’s Wives (1906) to walk through of the utility, limits and necessary adaptations that surface when Lincoln’s categories are applied to other types of religious texts beyond myth and canon.

Featured Image