Thinking through rituals : philosophical perspectives / / edited by Kevin Schilbrack
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| Titolo: |
Thinking through rituals : philosophical perspectives / / edited by Kevin Schilbrack
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 203.8 |
| 203/.8 | |
| 291.3801 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Ritual |
| Mind and body | |
| Religion - Philosophy | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
SchilbrackKevin <1964->
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Thinking through rituals |
| ISBN: | 0-415-29058-9 |
| 1-134-43677-7 | |
| 1-280-04775-5 | |
| 0-203-64441-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450581503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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