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1 - Worship

A Lay of the Land

from Part I - Two Introductions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Samuel Lebens  and
Aaron Segal
Edited by
Aaron Segal  and
Samuel Lebens
Aaron Segal
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Samuel Lebens
Affiliation:
University of Haifa, Israel
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Summary

This book is the fruit of a research project on the nature and value of worship that held two workshops at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. One of the key motivations for the project was just how neglected the study of worship has been in the philosophy of religion.

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The Philosophy of Worship
Divine and Human Aspects
 , pp. 3 - 15
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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References

Bayne, T., and Nagasawa, Y., 2006, “The Grounds of Worship,” Religious Studies 42 (3):299–313.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goldschmidt, Tyron, 2022, “What’s So Bad about Worshiping other Gods?” Journal of Analytic Theology 10:39–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hazony, Avital, 2021, “Worship: Bowing Down in the Service of God,” Religious Studies, First View: 1–18, doi:10.1017/S0034412521000044CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lebens, Samuel, 2021, “Defining Religion,” Buchak, Lara, and Zimmerman, Dean W. (eds), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 10, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Sacks, Jonathan, 2002, The Dignity of Difference, London and New York: Continuum.Google Scholar
Yang, Eric, 2022, “Worship, Apophaticism, and Non-propositional Knowledge: A Creative Retrieval of Moses Maimonides,” Journal of Analytic Theology 10:98–114.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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