Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the philosophy of religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20310683 |
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| Authors | Jack Williams (0000-0002-7286-8250, New College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 634-653 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religious Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4125 • E-ISSN: 1469-901X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s003441251900074x |
| OpenAlex | W2999287489 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
This article proposes a new approach to employing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy in the philosophy of religion. Rather than finding a latent theology in Merleau-Ponty – as some interpreters do – this article argues that Merleau-Ponty's later ontology can provide the basis for a philosophical anthropology which can help us understand why human beings are drawn to religion and how this is expressed in affective and ritual practice. This ontology can help us to understand the notion of freedom as it applies to affective, embodied, and ritual religious practices and begins to sketch out how freedom might be understood in light of embodiment
Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ontology · Philosophy of religion · Sketch · Sociology · Computer Science · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Theological Perspectives and Practices
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Phenomenology of Perception
The Spiritual Dimension
After World Religions
The Heathen in His Blindness
New Models of Religious Understanding
Partakers of the Divine
A critique of "religion" as a cross-cultural category1
The Question of Habit in Theology and Philosophy
The evidence of the senses and the materiality of religion
| Highly cited | No |
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