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The Charge of Rule Worship Against Rule-Consequentialism Restated
According to rule-consequentialism’s moral criterion, a given action is morally right if and only if it complies with an ideal code of rules,...
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Nishitani Keiji and the Nihility of the Christian Cross: On the Dialectic of Imitation and Worship
Nishitani Keiji elaborated the celebrated concept of nihility (虚無) in his seminal work Religion and Nothingness . In this paper, I discuss this...
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The (Father Almighty) God We Worship: The Epistemological Role of Liturgy in Christian Theology
In this paper I will argue that Christian theology is rooted in liturgical practices, being theology the theoretical reflection on the ritual...
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Ancestor Worship?
What do we owe to our predecessors? What duties and obligations do we have to those who have preceded us and produced the manifold of physical,...
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Is Work an Act of Worship? The Impact of Implicit Religious Beliefs on Work Ethic in Secular vs. Religious Cultures
This research examines the impact of implicit religious beliefs on work ethic in specific cultural contexts. Based on three studies, the authors...
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The demonstrative use of names, and the divine-name co-reference debate
For an account of the reference of divine names, I follow Bogardus and Urban (Faith and Philosophy 34(2):176–200, 2017) in advocating in favour of...
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The Reference of ‘God’: An Apophatic Perspective
In this paper I examine Hugh Burling’s inspiring proposal that the reference of ‘God’ is determined by the description: ‘the being worthy of our...
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Manhandling the Goddess: The Thuggee Archive as a Sum of (Male) Parts
Every archive holds many stories; this paper analyses the treatment and socio-political role of the Indian goddess icon, Kali, in the early...
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Moral Interests, Privacy, and Medical Research
This chapter examines the relationship between the values of researchResearch and privacy in the context of medical research on patient data. An...
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Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda
The automation of online social life is an urgent issue for researchers and the public alike. However, one of the most significant uses of such...
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Philosophy in Poland: Varieties of Anti-Irrationalism. A Commitment to Reason without the Worship of Reason
I shall elaborate more on the idea of anti-irrationalism proposed by the Polish analytic philosopher Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, a prominent member of the...
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The Natural Theology of Beauty, and the Glory of Love
In this paper, I present a piece of natural theology, whose pro tanto conclusion is the existence of god-the-artist, that is a lower case “g” god, a...
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True Religion as True Philosophy: Its Intellectual, Emotional and Moral Aspects
For Hume, the so-called popular superstition is a corrupted form of true religion, with the latter constituting a type of worship whose role is to...
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Introduction
The three teachings (Sanjiao 三教, the traditional moral teachings in Chinese context.) of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism are not ‘religions’ in...
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Post-secularism, Liberalism and Their Discontents
This chapter deals with the concepts of secularism and post-secularism as they apply to contexts such as that of India. The chapter argues that the...
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Art and Life at Ìsàlè̩-Ọ̀yó̩ Community: Dividuation Beyond the ‘I’ and ‘We’ to the ‘Atypical Ternary Others’
This paper perceives dividuation as a theory of modern living that can be applied to everyday living, everywhere in our present and becoming world....
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Summary
The main thesis of the book is that both vulgar religion and philosophical theism in Hume come with both negative and positive variations. The...