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Acting Liturgically: Philosophical Reflections on Religious Practice

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Participation in religious liturgies and rituals is a pervasive and remarkably complex form of human activity. This book opens with a discussion of the nature of liturgical activity and then explores various dimensions of such activity. Over the past fifty years there has been a remarkable
surge of interest, within the analytic tradition of philosophy, in philosophy of religion. Most of what has been written by participants in this movement deals with one or another aspect of religious belief. Yet for most adherents of most religions, participation in the liturgies and rituals of
their religion is at least as important as what they believe.

One of the aims of this book is to call the attention of philosophers of religion to the importance of religious practice and to demonstrate how rich a topic this is for philosophical reflection. Another aim is to show liturgical scholars who are not philosophers that a philosophical approach to
liturgy casts an illuminating light on the topic that supplements their own approach. Insofar as philosophers have written about liturgy, they have focused most of their attention on its formative and expressive functions. This book focuses instead on understanding what liturgical agents actually
do. It is what they do that functions formatively or expressively. What they do is basic.


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ACTING LITURGICALLY

Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Product Weight: 0.90 lbs
Author: Wolterstorff, Nicholas
Publication Date: 2022-01-28
Language: English
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Dewey Decimal Classification: 264
Number of Units in Package: 1

ISBN: 9780192894229