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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784096203321

Titolo

Thinking through rituals : philosophical perspectives / / edited by Kevin Schilbrack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-43676-9

0-415-29058-9

1-134-43677-7

1-280-04775-5

0-203-64441-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Classificazione

08.37

Altri autori (Persone)

SchilbrackKevin <1964->

Disciplina

203.8

203/.8

291.3801

Soggetti

Ritual

Mind and body

Religion - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Ritual, body technique, and (inter) subjectivity; 2 Practice, belief, and feminist philosophy of religion; 3 Rites of passing; 4 Scapegoat rituals in Wittgensteinian perspective; 5 Ritual inquiry; 6 Ritual metaphysics; 7 Philosophical naturalism and the cognitive approach to ritual; 8 Theories and facts on ritual simultaneities; 9 Moral cultivation through ritual participation; 10 The ritual roots of moral reason; 11 Ritual gives rise to thought; 12 Ritual and Christian philosophy

13 Religious rituals, spiritually disciplined practices, and healthIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Many philosophical approaches today seek to overcome the division between mind and body. If such projects succeed, then thinking is not restricted to the disembodied mind, but is in some sense done through the body. From a post-Cartesian perspective, then, ritual activities that



discipline the body are not just thoughtless motions, but crucial parts of the way people think.Thinking Through Rituals explores religious ritual acts and their connection to meaning and truth, belief, memory, inquiry, worldview and ethics. Drawing on philosophers such as Foucault, Merleau-Ponty and W