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Thinking through rituals : philosophical perspectives
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ISBN: 0415290597 0415290589 1134436777 1280047755 0203644417 9780203644416 9780415290593 9781134436774 9781134436729 1134436726 9781134436767 1134436769 9780415290586 9781280047756 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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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 W


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Journal of mind and medical sciences.
ISSN: 23927674 Year: 2014 Publisher: Valparaiso, IN : ValpoScholar/ Valparaiso University,

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