Titlebook: Religion, Philosophy and Knowledge; Gregory W. Dawes Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 theology.Christianity.

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Religious Language thought to be facts); they can also be commissives (committing the speaker to a course of action) and declarations (bringing about new states of affairs). Such utterances have a double direction of fit, being both . the world and . how it ought to be.

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Modes of Thought, mythic, and theoretic culture, it argues that the native idiom of religious thought is mythic. Mythic thought typically uses narrative and is heavily reliant upon metaphor, although it often fails to distinguish between the literal and the metaphorical.

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Dreams and Visionsin human thought, this chapter argues that dreams and visions could sometimes be sources of knowledge. They should not, however, be regarded as reliable sources of knowledge, and what knowledge they yield will be only within certain restricted domains.

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978-3-319-82840-4The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

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Individual SalvationThe second aim of religions is that of ensuring the salvation or liberation of an individual devotee. This salvation comes about through conformity to the normative, sacred order of which religions speak. This chapter discusses some of the conceptions of salvation found within the world’s religions.

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Embodied KnowledgeAs a form of knowing-how, religious knowledge is often . knowledge: it activates and relies on our various sensory modalities. Religious rituals are powerful means of producing such knowledge. The knowledge that religious practices convey may also be . knowledge, which cannot be fully articulated in words.

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