Religious Ritual: A Kantian Perspective
This essay seeks to construct an understanding of the relationship between religious ritual and morality by means of an exploration of disparate and undeveloped suggestions in the writings of Immanuel Kant. The position worked out sees ritual as the effort to use complex symbolic and group activity...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1979
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1979, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 229-238 |
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Summary: | This essay seeks to construct an understanding of the relationship between religious ritual and morality by means of an exploration of disparate and undeveloped suggestions in the writings of Immanuel Kant. The position worked out sees ritual as the effort to use complex symbolic and group activity for the purpose of expressing and vivifying the fundamental moral conceptions that underlie religious belief. In a closing discussion, early Christian baptism is used to illustrate and partly to substantiate this Kantian moral account of religious ritual. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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