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What those repeated actions tell us: Reflections toward a comparative phenomenological hermeneutics of religious rituals

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TL48093

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

What those repeated actions tell us: Reflections toward a comparative phenomenological hermeneutics of religious rituals

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[Thesis]

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David C. Falgout

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Albertini, Tamara

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University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

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260

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-46301-9

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

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University of Hawai'i at Manoa

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2014

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This research addresses an intersection of philosophy of religion and aesthetics via a theory of religious ritual hermeneutics and aesthetics. Primary attention is paid to a daily religious ritual in Vedic Hinduism (agnihotra, twice daily oblations to Agni) and in Islam (salāt, five daily prayers). Philosophers of religion have long debated the nature of religious experience, yet ritual is rarely discussed. Philosophers of aesthetics have recently developed medium-specific approaches to performative art theory, but religious ritual remains undertreated. Negotiating tensions between five hermeneutic themes influential in contemporary theories of ritual action (rule-following, instrumentalism, self-transformation, morality, and aesthetics), this theory aims to avoid two extremes: "domestication of religious ritual," attributing meaning to unfamiliar religious rituals by reducing them to familiar categories of action, and "alienation of religious ritual," regarding such rituals as only meaningful within that religion, rendering outside interpretation fruitless.

Religion; Philosophy; Comparative; Aesthetics

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Aesthetics;Hermeneutics;Meaning;Performance;Religion;Ritual

Mujtaba, Falak

Albertini, Tamara

University of Hawai'i at Manoa

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1651531229; 3648530

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276903

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