books.google.com - D.Z. Phillips argues that intellectuals need not see their task as being for or against religion, but as one of understanding it. What stands in the way of this task is certain methodological assumptions about what enquiry into religion must be. Beginning with Bernard Williams on Greek gods, Phillips...https://books.google.com/books/about/Religion_and_the_Hermeneutics_of_Contemp.html?id=ekBwYtjYly4C&q=Durkheim&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareReligion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation