RELIGION AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF CONTEMPLATION

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Leading philosopher of religion D. Z. Phillips examines the conceptual assumptions of atheistic thought.Leading philosopher of religion D. Z. Phillips examines the conceptual assumptions of atheistic thought in the work of leading thinkers including Frazer Feuerbach Marx Freud and Durkheim. Extending Phillips earlier work Religion without Explanation this book makes an important contribution to the philosophy of religion and related disciplines.Leading philosopher of religion D. Z. Phillips examines the conceptual assumptions of atheistic thought in the work of leading thinkers including Frazer Feuerbach Marx Freud and Durkheim. Extending Phillips earlier work Religion without Explanation this book makes an important contribution to the philosophy of religion and related disciplines.Leading philosopher of religion D. Z. Phillips argues that intellectuals need not see their task as being for or against religion but as one of understanding it. What stands in the way of this task are certain methodological assumptions about what enquiry into religion must be. Beginning with Bernard Williams on Greek gods Phillips goes on to examine these assumptions in the work of Hume Feuerbach Marx Frazer Tylor Marett Freud Durkheim LęvyBruhl Berger and Winch. The result exposes confusion but also gives logical space to religious belief without advocating personal acceptance of that belief and shows how the academic study of religion may return to the contemplative task of doing conceptual justice to the world. Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation extends in important ways D. Z. Phillips seminal 1976 book Religion without Explanation. It will be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy anthropology sociology and theology.1. Hermeneutics and the philosophical future of religious studies: 2. Bernard Williams on the gods and us: 3. Humes legacy: 4. Feuerbach: religions secret: 5. Marx and Engels: religion alienation and compensation: 6. Tylor and Frazer: are religious beliefs mistaken hypotheses?: 7. Marett: primitive reactions: 8. Freud: the battle for earliest things: 9. Durkheim: religion as a social construct: 10. LęvyBruhl: primitive logic: 11. Berger: the avoidance of discourse: 12. Which: trying to understand: 13. Understanding: a philosophical vocation. there is no doubt that he has produced an extremely important corrective to longstanding and persisting misunderstandings in the study of religion. As such it is a book that deserves to be widely read. Theology

Data Publikacji: 2001-07-26
Wymiary: 228 mm 152 mm 21 mm 555 gr