Philosophy of Religion After Religion (Religion in Philosophy and Theology)

✍ Scribed by Richard Amesbury (editor), Michael C. Rodgers (editor)

• Publisher: Mohr Siebrek Ek
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 171
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Long framed in terms of Christian and secularist concerns, the field of philosophy of religion has recently been attempting to expand to include a wider, more diverse variety of religious phenomena. At the same time, a growing body of literature within religious studies has called attention to the historical genealogy and limitations of the category of "religion." If "religion" is itself a modern, secular extrapolation from Christian understandings, disseminated globally through colonial encounter, does the apparently more capacious approach to philosophy of religion simply reproduce the deficiencies of the old under the guise of a false universal? The present volumeseeks to move the field in the direction of a reflexive turn, toward an examination of the philosophical implications of the concept of "religion."

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Preface
Contents
Introduction: Making the Reflexive Turn in Philosophy of Religion — Richard Amesbury
»Religion« under Erasure: Why the Concept is Problematic and Why We Still Need It — Sonia Sikka
Why Philosophers of Religion Don’t Need »Religion« – At Least Not for Now — Timothy D. Knepper
An Essentialist in Critical Religion Land, Or, How Fitzgerald’s Deconstructive Genealogy of Religion Is Compatible with an Essentialist Concept of Religion — Dwayne Tunstall
Vagueness and Its Virtues: A Proposal for Renewing Philosophy of Religion — J. Aaron Simmons
Race and the Philosophy of Religion — Vincent Lloyd
Nothingness and Self Transformation: Kim Iryŏp, Tanabe Hajime, and Jacques Derrida on Relgious Practice — Jin Y. Park
Whether Religion Is a Proper Subject of Study — Robert Cummings Neville
Contributors
Subject Index
Author Index