From moral decay to pure escapism: how attitudes to reading have changed over three centuries
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From moral decay to pure escapism: how attitudes to reading have changed over three centuries
Ask someone today why they enjoy reading novels and they will likely say it allows them to escape real life and immerse themselves in a different world. This escapism is seen as positive, but for centuries novel reading was thought to corrupt readers for precisely these reasons. This year is the UK’s National Year of Reading – a government-led campaign “to help more people (re)discover the joy of reading and make it part of their everyday lives”…
The foundation stone for the Siyer-i Nebi Complex, which will consist of 30 separate buildings in Sivas, was laid with the participation of Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the İlim Yayma Foundation, Bilal Erdoğan. Speaking at the ceremony, Çiftçi emphasized that they are going through a period where spiritual decay is deepening and false understandings are trying to encompass minds and hearts, statin…
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