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Instruments of Devotion : the Practices and Objects of Religious Piety from the Late Middle Ages to the 20th Century.

Belief and religion are returning as focal concerns in modern philosophical debate. Interestingly, this 'religious turn' is most clearly seen in so-called post-modern or post-structuralist thinking. Today we are witnessing the dissolution of philosophical theories such as positivist scient...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laugerud, Henning
Otros Autores: Skinnebach, Laura Katrine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara : Aarhus University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Belief and religion are returning as focal concerns in modern philosophical debate. Interestingly, this 'religious turn' is most clearly seen in so-called post-modern or post-structuralist thinking. Today we are witnessing the dissolution of philosophical theories such as positivist scientism and Marxism, which thought they had definitively liquidated religion. After modernity, there are no more strong philosophical reasons either to be an atheist refusing religion or to be a theist refuting science. The above, or similar, attitudes form a common point of departure for all the contributors to.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (223 pages)
ISBN:9788779349612
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