LEADER 04589nam 22006492 450 001 9910456206303321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-12345-3 010 $a0-511-32784-6 010 $a0-511-04383-X 010 $a0-511-15328-7 010 $a0-511-17394-6 010 $a0-511-61271-0 010 $a1-280-43332-9 010 $a0-521-80368-3 035 $a(CKB)111082128283776 035 $a(EBL)202011 035 $a(OCoLC)475916502 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000235485 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201179 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235485 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10247478 035 $a(PQKB)10647732 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511612718 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC202011 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL202011 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr5006333 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL43332 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111082128283776 100 $a20141103d2001|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aReligion and the hermeneutics of contemplation /$fD.Z. Phillips$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2001. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-00846-8 311 $a0-511-01293-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tHermeneutics and the philosophical future of religious studies --$tThe present contenders: the hermeneutics of recollection and the hermeneutics of suspicion --$tThe hermeneutics of contemplation --$tBeyond interpretation to contemplation --$tBeyond frameworks and grids to concept-formation --$tSuspicion about suspicion --$tThe hermeneutics of contemplation and Wittgensteinian Fideism --$tBernard Williams on the gods and us --$tHermeneutics and modernity --$tAssumptions about the gods --$tQuestioning the assumptions --$tHume's legacy --$tHume and hermeneutics --$tHume's first level of criticism --$tHume's second level of criticism --$tHume's third level of criticism --$tHume's 'true religion' --$tHume on miracles --$tBeyond design to a song of creation --$tHume's one-sided diet --$tHume and us --$tFeuerbach: religion's secret? --$tFeuerbach and demystification --$tGod among the predicates --$tGod and the human species --$tContradiction and contemplation --$tDeath and finitude --$tContemplating reactions to death --$tGod and death --$tConclusions about death --$tMarx and Engels: religion, alienation and compensation --$tMarxism and monism --$tReligion and ideology --$tTylor and Frazer: are religious beliefs mistaken hypotheses? --$tAnimism and intellectualism --$tAnimism, souls and spirits --$tWhat rituals can be --$tRituals and the mythology in our language --$tRituals and explanations --$tMarett: primitive reactions --$tMarett and anti-intellectualism --$tMarett and suspicion --$tIn the beginning was the dance --$tMarett's other course. 330 $aLeading philosopher of religion D. Z. Phillips argues that intellectuals need not see their task as being for or against religion, but as one of understanding it. What stands in the way of this task are certain methodological assumptions about what enquiry into religion must be. Beginning with Bernard Williams on Greek gods, Phillips goes on to examine these assumptions in the work of Hume, Feuerbach, Marx, Frazer, Tylor, Marett, Freud, Durkheim, Le?vy-Bruhl, Berger and Winch. The result exposes confusion, but also gives logical space to religious belief without advocating personal acceptance of that belief, and shows how the academic study of religion may return to the contemplative task of doing conceptual justice to the world. Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation extends in important ways D. Z. Phillips' seminal 1976 book Religion without Explanation. It will be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, anthropology, sociology and theology. 517 3 $aReligion & the Hermeneutics of Contemplation 606 $aReligion$xPhilosophy$xMethodology 606 $aHermeneutics$xReligious aspects 615 0$aReligion$xPhilosophy$xMethodology. 615 0$aHermeneutics$xReligious aspects. 676 $a210 700 $aPhillips$b D. Z$g(Dewi Zephaniah),$0223588 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456206303321 996 $aReligion and the hermeneutics of contemplation$92453520 997 $aUNINA