Participation in religious liturgies and rituals is a pervasive and
remarkably complex form of human activity. This book opens with a
discussion of the nature of liturgical activity and then explores
various dimensions of such activity. Over the past fifty years
there has been a remarkable surge of interest, within the analytic
tradition of philosophy, in philosophy of religion. Most of what
has been written by participants in this movement deals with one or
another aspect of religious belief. Yet for most adherents of most
religions, participation in the liturgies and rituals of their
religion is at least as important as what they believe. One of the
aims of this book is to call the attention of philosophers of
religion to the importance of religious practice and to demonstrate
how rich a topic this is for philosophical reflection. Another aim
is to show liturgical scholars who are not philosophers that a
philosophical approach to liturgy casts an illuminating light on
the topic that supplements their own approach. Insofar as
philosophers have written about liturgy, they have focused most of
their attention on its formative and expressive functions. This
book focuses instead on understanding what liturgical agents
actually do. It is what they do that functions formatively or
expressively. What they do is basic.
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