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Religion and the hermeneutics of contemplation

Author: D Z Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: D Z Phillips
ISBN: 0521803683 9780521803687 0521008468 9780521008464
OCLC Number: 45582682
Description: xiv, 330 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Hermeneutics and the philosophical future of religious studies --
The present contenders: the hermeneutics of recollection and the hermeneutics of suspicion --
The hermeneutics of contemplation --
Beyond interpretation to contemplation --
Beyond frameworks and grids to concept-formation --
Suspicion about suspicion --
The hermeneutics of contemplation and Wittgensteinian Fideism --
Bernard Williams on the gods and us --
Hermeneutics and modernity --
Assumptions about the gods --
Questioning the assumptions --
Hume's legacy --
Hume and hermeneutics --
Hume's first level of criticism --
Hume's second level of criticism --
Hume's third level of criticism --
Hume's 'true religion' --
Hume on miracles --
Beyond design to a song of creation --
Hume's one-sided diet --
Hume and us --
Feuerbach: religion's secret? --
Feuerbach and demystification --
God among the predicates --
God and the human species --
Contradiction and contemplation --
Death and finitude --
Contemplating reactions to death --
God and death --
Conclusions about death --
Marx and Engels: religion, alienation and compensation --
Marxism and monism --
Religion and ideology --
Tylor and Frazer: are religious beliefs mistaken hypotheses? --
Animism and intellectualism --
Animism, souls and spirits --
What rituals can be --
Rituals and the mythology in our language --
Rituals and explanations --
Marett: primitive reactions --
Marett and anti-intellectualism --
Marett and suspicion --
In the beginning was the dance --
Marett's other course.
Responsibility: D.Z. Phillips.
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