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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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  • Title Thinking Through Rituals: Philosophical Perspectives
  • Author Kevin Schilbrack (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition New edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2004-03-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780415290586 / 0415290589
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.44 x 0.88 in (23.47 x 16.36 x 2.24 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Ritual, Mind and body
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003058783
  • Dewey Decimal Code 203.8

About the author

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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