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Part of Fortune's Children: The Lost Heirs S series

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A Most Desirable MD by Anne Marie Winston

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 is certain methodological assumptions about what inquiry into religion must be. Beginning with Bernard Williams on Greek gods, Phillips goes on to examine these assumptions in the work of Hume, Feurerbach, Marx, Frazer, Tylor, Marett, Freud, Durkheim, L vy-Bruhl, Berger and Winch. The result exposes confusion, but also gives logical space to religious 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.

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ISBN 13 9780373763719
ISBN 10 0373763719
Title A Most Desirable MD
Author Anne Marie Winston
Series Fortune's Children: The Lost Heirs S
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 2002-05-17
Number of pages 183
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