Spiritual desire and religious practice
This article clarifies the relationship between spiritual desire and religious practice. I outline a philosophical account of practice, and suggest that desire is one of four cornerstones of the concept of practice. I distinguish three kinds of practice - art practice, skill practice, and spiritual...
| Autres titres: | Religious Experience and Desire Guest |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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| Dans: |
Religious studies
Année: 2019, Volume: 55, Numéro: 3, Pages: 429-446 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Spiritualité
/ Désir ardent
/ Vie religieuse
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion AG Vie religieuse CB Spiritualité chrétienne |
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| Résumé: | This article clarifies the relationship between spiritual desire and religious practice. I outline a philosophical account of practice, and suggest that desire is one of four cornerstones of the concept of practice. I distinguish three kinds of practice - art practice, skill practice, and spiritual practice - which are differentiated by their structures of desire. I argue that 'spiritual desire' can be understood as an 'infinite desire'', and that spiritual practices offer determinate, embodied, culturally specific ways to express this infinite desire. Within this theoretical framework, I discuss certain salient features of experiences described during my interviews with religious practitioners, showing how these first-person accounts of spiritual desire and religious practice relate to my philosophical analysis. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412519000015 |