Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice by Vanessa Zoltan (TarcherPerigree, 2021). Praying with Jane Eyre is not what it sounds like. Author Vanessa Zoltan, as an atheist, has her own ideas about what constitutes prayer. She also has her own ideas about what constitutes a sacred text. For her, what makes a text sacred is not divine inspiration, but simply a reader deciding to treat it as sacred, a source of wisdom that has much to teach. And that’s what she decided to do with Charlotte Brontë’s
Book Review: Praying with Jane Eyre
Book Review: Praying with Jane Eyre
Book Review: Praying with Jane Eyre
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice by Vanessa Zoltan (TarcherPerigree, 2021). Praying with Jane Eyre is not what it sounds like. Author Vanessa Zoltan, as an atheist, has her own ideas about what constitutes prayer. She also has her own ideas about what constitutes a sacred text. For her, what makes a text sacred is not divine inspiration, but simply a reader deciding to treat it as sacred, a source of wisdom that has much to teach. And that’s what she decided to do with Charlotte Brontë’s