Thinking Through Rituals

Kevin Schilbrack is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Wesleyan College, Georgia. A graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School, he is the editor of Thinking Through Myths: Philosophical Perspectives (Routledge, 2002).

• Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: on the use of philosophy in the study of rituals Kevin Schilbrack 1. Ritual, body technique, and (inter)subjectivity Nick Crossley 2. Practce, belief, and feminist philosophy of religion Amy Hollywood 3. Rites of passing: Foucault, power, and same-sex commitement ceremonies Ladelle McWhorter 4. Scapegoat rituals in Wittgensteinian perspective Brian Clack 5. Ritual inquiry: the pragmatic logic of religious practice Michael L. Raposa 6. Ritual metaphysics Kevin Schilbrack 7. Philosophical naturalism and the cognitive appraoch to ritual Robert McCauley 8. Theories and facts on ritual simultaneities Frits Staal 9. Moral cultivation through ritual participation: Xunzi's philosophy of ritual T.C Kline III 10. The ritual roots of moral reason: lessons from Mimamsa Jonardon Ganeri 11. Ritual gives rise to thought: liturgical reasoning in modern Jewish philosophy Steven Kepnes 12. Ritual and Christian philosophy Charles Taliaferro 13. Religious rituals, spiritually disciplined practices, and health Peter Van Ness Index