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What do we Study When we Study Religion?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. Arthur Martin
J. Arthur Martin
Affiliation:
Chairman of the Department of Religion, Wheaton College, Massachusetts
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In ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy’ Laurence Sterne writes:

That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best—I'm sure it is the most religious—for I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1975 , pp. 467 - 472
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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References

1 The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902; The Modern Library Edition, New York, p. 35.Google Scholar