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

Contributor(s): Schilbrack, Kevin, 1964-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2004Description: ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415290597 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415290589 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Ritual | Mind and body | Religion -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 203/.8 LOC classification: BL600 | .T47 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: on the use of philosophy in the study of rituals / Kevin Schilbrack -- Ritual, body technique, and (inter)subjectivity / Nick Corssley -- Practice, belief, and feminist philosophy of religion / Amy Hollywood -- Rites of passing: Foucault, power, and same-sex commitment ceremonies / Ladelle McWhorter -- Scapegoat rituals in Wittgensteinian perspective / Brian R. Clack -- Ritual inquiry: the pragmatic logic of religious practice / Michael L. Raposa -- Ritual metaphysics / Kevin Schilbrack -- Philosophical naturalism and the cognitive approach to ritual / Robert N. McCauley -- Theories and facts on ritual simultaneities / Frits Staal -- Moral cultivation through ritual participation: Xunzi's philosophy of ritual / T. C. Kline III -- The ritual roots of moral reason: lessons from Mīmāṃsā / Jonardon Ganeri -- Ritual gives rise to thought: liturgical reasoning in modern Jewish philosophy / Steven Kepnes -- Ritual and Christian philosophy / Charles Taliaferro -- Religious rituals, spiritually disciplined practices, and health / Peter H. Van Ness.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: on the use of philosophy in the study of rituals / Kevin Schilbrack -- Ritual, body technique, and (inter)subjectivity / Nick Corssley -- Practice, belief, and feminist philosophy of religion / Amy Hollywood -- Rites of passing: Foucault, power, and same-sex commitment ceremonies / Ladelle McWhorter -- Scapegoat rituals in Wittgensteinian perspective / Brian R. Clack -- Ritual inquiry: the pragmatic logic of religious practice / Michael L. Raposa -- Ritual metaphysics / Kevin Schilbrack -- Philosophical naturalism and the cognitive approach to ritual / Robert N. McCauley -- Theories and facts on ritual simultaneities / Frits Staal -- Moral cultivation through ritual participation: Xunzi's philosophy of ritual / T. C. Kline III -- The ritual roots of moral reason: lessons from Mīmāṃsā / Jonardon Ganeri -- Ritual gives rise to thought: liturgical reasoning in modern Jewish philosophy / Steven Kepnes -- Ritual and Christian philosophy / Charles Taliaferro -- Religious rituals, spiritually disciplined practices, and health / Peter H. Van Ness.

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