I recently posted about the superb new Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity (henceforward CHAC), edited by my two Baylor colleagues Bruce Longenecker
According to Philip Jenkins, one way to study religion is to look at beliefs, institutions, and formal religious practices. Another is to look at "lived religion," the everyday rituals and habits that ordinary people even secularists do to give their lives meaning and a sense of the transcendence. What's a Christian perspective on this?
My present work concerns the topic of Lived Religion, which will be the subject of my next few posts. To simplify, this is the study of religion as it is