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

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	802913
Doc. No	:	TL48093
Call number	:	‭1651531229;‮ ‬3648530‬
Main Entry	:	Mujtaba, Falak
Title & Author	:	What those repeated actions tell us: Reflections toward a comparative phenomenological hermeneutics of religious rituals
	:	\ David C. Falgout
	:	Albertini, Tamara
College	:	University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Date	:	2014
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2014
Page No	:	260
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-46301-9
Abstract	:	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 (<i>agnihotra</i>, twice daily oblations to Agni) and in Islam (<i>salāt</i>, 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.
Subject	:	Religion; Philosophy; Comparative; Aesthetics
Descriptor	:	Philosophy, religion and theology;Aesthetics;Hermeneutics;Meaning;Performance;Religion;Ritual
Added Entry	:	Albertini, Tamara
Added Entry	:	University of Hawai'i at Manoa