Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation - Couverture rigide

Phillips, D. Z.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521803683 ISBN 13 : 9780521803687

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Leading philosopher of religion D. Z. Phillips examines the conceptual assumptions of atheistic thought.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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, Lévy-Bruhl, 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.

Revue de presse

'... there is no doubt that he has produced an extremely important corrective to long-standing and persisting misunderstandings in the study of religion. As such, it is a book that deserves to be widely read.' Theology

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521803683
• ISBN 13: 9780521803687
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 346
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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