Lives of Great Religious Books

Location

Princeton University Press and Center for the Study of Religion will host a panel discussion on “Lives of Great Religious Books,” Friday, March 25, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. in Frist 302 on the University campus. The discussion will focus on a new series of short volumes from Princeton University Press that recount the complex and fascinating histories of important religious texts from around the world. Written for general readers by leading authors and experts, these books examine the historical origins of texts from the great religious traditions, and trace how their reception, interpretation, and influence have changed--often radically--over time. Donald S. Lopez. Jr., author of the biography of The Tibetan Book of the Dead; Martin Marty, author of the biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison; and Vanessa Ochs, author of the forthcoming biography of the Haggadah, will join Princeton Religion Professor Eric Gregory to examine how all great religious books are living things whose careers in the world can take the most unexpected turns.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information on the book series, visit http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/lgrb.html. For more information on the event, please visit www.princeton.edu/csr.