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Are there any good philosophy books that advocate religion, spirituality, or mysticism from a practical point of view? As in, something that is self-aware of it being an ideological system but still agreeing with it. Bonus points of it relates to postmodernism or critical theory in any way.
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Dostoevsky
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Karl Jaspers, Simone Weil
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>>7876821
>>7876918
These are exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. Any particular books or works you'd recommend from them?
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Michel Henry
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Chaos magick i guess
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>>7876805
Critique of Pure Reason
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>>7876805
Deleuze and Guattari, if you're Wise enough
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>>7876805
Dostoevsky, Augustine, Chesterton (bit of a stretch)
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>>7876805

May help; but remember to actually read the lines and not just inbetween them.
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>>7876954

The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot fit closest to what you want here. All of Dostoevsky's major works feature Christianity prominently.
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>>7876805

Aug. of Hippo, Aquinas

Probably Kierkegaard is the most self aware of it, and best at promoting it's usefulness. You won't find better.
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>>7876805
Hegel
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The book of the new sun
The highest praise I can give it is this: before reading it, I was an athiest.
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not philosophy but you might find Cat's Cradle interesting
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>>7877102
He did not in any way advocated religious practice.
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>>7876805
Fuck I was just reading about someone who did everything in your post fuck
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>>7877102
You might be thinking of the Right Hegelians, or the conservative interpretations of Hegel
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>>7877010
Really? Which one of their works specifically?
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>>7876805
Hugo
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Paul Tillich, William James, and Spinoza
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>>7876805
Rene Girard is a postmodern Catholic theologian. It's shit, but interesting shit.
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>>7876805
Bruno Latour's "The Modern Cult of the Factish Gods" and "Rejoicing" are basically howtos for religion.
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John Caputo, Jean-Luc Marion
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>>7876954
Brothers Karamazov, Idiot, Demons, Crime and Punishment... all of the big ones, really.
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