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Levi, Avital HazonyAffiliation
Department of Philosophy, University of ArizonaIssue Date
2021-04-05
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Levi, A. (2021). Worship: Bowing down in the service of God. Religious Studies, 1-18. doi:10.1017/S0034412521000044Journal
Religious StudiesRights
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Collection Information
This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
Philosophers commonly assume that worship is a universal attitude. Two major approaches see worship as a sui generis attitude or as the specific attitude of respect. This article criticizes the universal assumption and defines worship as a ritual that shapes a person in acquiring the attitude considered appropriate in relating to a superior such as God. Religions differ in their rituals of worship because they disagree on what this appropriate attitude is. This claim is demonstrated by distinguishing the Hebrew Bible's form of worship as bowing down. Biblical worship is shown to be political, forming the worshipper into a loyal servant of God as king. This form of worship is argued to be fundamentally ethical because it teaches that the individual's relationship with God supervenes on human relationships.Note
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0034-4125EISSN
1469-901XVersion
Final published versionae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1017/s0034412521000044
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