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Thinking Through Rituals - Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Thinking Through Rituals - Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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
Wittgenstein, and sources from cognitive science, pragmatism and
feminist theory, it provides philosophical resources for
understanding religious ritual practices like the Christian
Eucharistic ceremony, Hatha Yoga, sacred meditation or liturgical
speech. Its essays consider a wide variety of rituals in
Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism - including political
protest rituals and gay commitment ceremonies, traditional Vedic
and Yogic rites, Christian and Buddhist meditation and the Jewish
Shabbat. They challenge the traditional disjunction between thought
and action, showing how philosophy can help to illuminate the
relationship between doing and meaning which ritual practices
imply.
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