Spiritual desire and religious practice
This article clarifies the relationship between spiritual desire and religious practice. I outline a philosophical account of practice, and suggest that desire is one of four cornerstones of the concept of practice. I distinguish three kinds of practice - art practice, skill practice, and spiritual...
| Published in: | Religious studies |
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| Subtitles: | Religious Experience and Desire Guest |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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| In: |
Religious studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Spirituality
/ Longing
/ Religious life
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion CB Christian life; spirituality |
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| Summary: | This article clarifies the relationship between spiritual desire and religious practice. I outline a philosophical account of practice, and suggest that desire is one of four cornerstones of the concept of practice. I distinguish three kinds of practice - art practice, skill practice, and spiritual practice - which are differentiated by their structures of desire. I argue that 'spiritual desire' can be understood as an 'infinite desire'', and that spiritual practices offer determinate, embodied, culturally specific ways to express this infinite desire. Within this theoretical framework, I discuss certain salient features of experiences described during my interviews with religious practitioners, showing how these first-person accounts of spiritual desire and religious practice relate to my philosophical analysis. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412519000015 |