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Religiously We Dwell: Heidegger's Later Contribution to Philosophy of Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Brian Rogers
Brian Rogers*
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University of Guelph, Philosophy, 50 Stone Road East, N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Abstract

The Enlightenment has bequeathed to us the notion that religion can be treated as an object of theoretical inquiry, giving rise to the “secular” concept of religion as a field of meaning or truth-content that is (ideally) isolable from the particular practices that constitute religious worship. I argue that the later Heidegger's “poetic” thought disrupts the paradigm underlying the secular concept of religion and points us toward an alternative understanding of religion as tantamount to being-in-the-world. Heidegger thus opens the way for post-secular reflection on the transformative potential of religion in human culture.

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New Blackfriars , Volume 96 , Issue 1064 , July 2015 , pp. 445 - 464
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Copyright © 2015 The Dominican Council

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