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Author:   Kevin Schilbrack
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9780415290586

ISBN 10:   0415290589
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   25 March 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: on the use of philosophy in the study of rituals Kevin Schilbrack 1. Ritual, body technique, and (inter)subjectivity Nick Crossley 2. Practce, belief, and feminist philosophy of religion Amy Hollywood 3. Rites of passing: Foucault, power, and same-sex commitement ceremonies Ladelle McWhorter 4. Scapegoat rituals in Wittgensteinian perspective Brian Clack 5. Ritual inquiry: the pragmatic logic of religious practice Michael L. Raposa 6. Ritual metaphysics Kevin Schilbrack 7. Philosophical naturalism and the cognitive appraoch to ritual Robert McCauley 8. Theories and facts on ritual simultaneities Frits Staal 9. Moral cultivation through ritual participation: Xunzi's philosophy of ritual T.C Kline III 10. The ritual roots of moral reason: lessons from Mimamsa Jonardon Ganeri 11. Ritual gives rise to thought: liturgical reasoning in modern Jewish philosophy Steven Kepnes 12. Ritual and Christian philosophy Charles Taliaferro 13. Religious rituals, spiritually disciplined practices, and health Peter Van Ness Index

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Kevin Schilbrack is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Wesleyan College, Georgia. A graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School, he is the editor of Thinking Through Myths: Philosophical Perspectives (Routledge, 2002).

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