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Renewing Philosophy of Religion

Exploratory Essays

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 30th Nov 2017
Dimensions: w 148mm h 219mm d 20mm
Weight: 452g
ISBN-10: 0198738900
ISBN-13: 9780198738909
Barcode No: 9780198738909
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This book is animated by a shared conviction that philosophy of religion needs to change: thirteen new essays suggest why and how. The first part of the volume explores possible changes to the focus of the field. The second part focuses on the standpoint from which philosophers of religion should approach their field. In the first part are chapters on how an emphasis on faith distorts attempts to engage non-western religious ideas; on how philosophers from different traditions might collaborate on common interests; on why the common presupposition of ultimacy leads to error; on how new religious movements feed a naturalistic philosophy of religion; on why a focus on belief and a focus on practice are both mistaken; on why philosophy's deep axiological concern should set much of the field's agenda; and on how the field might contribute to religious evolution. The second part includes a qualitative analysis of the standpoint of fifty-one philosophers of religion, and also addresses issues about humility needed in continental philosophy of religion; about the implausibility of claiming that one's own worldview is uniquely rational; about the Moorean approach to religious epistemology; about a Spinozan middle way between 'insider' and 'outsider' perspectives; and about the unorthodox lessons we could learn from scriptures like the book of Job if we could get past the confessional turn in recent philosophy of religion.The goal of the volume is to identify new paths for philosophers of religion that are distinct from those travelled by theologians and other scholars of religion.

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this collection of essays should interest anyone looking beyond the current methods and topics of the field. * Luis Pinto de Sa, Saint Louis University, Religious Studies Review * There is much that is of interest in the thirteen essays of this volume * Adam Green, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * [T]he vision of philosophy of religion that is being proposed herecross-cultural normative arguments about what is real and what is valuableis arguably what people today need most. Philosophy of religion understood in this way is not Christian apologetics but rather a crucial aspect of living with diversity. A philosophy of religion which lives up to its name ought to be defended as the center of the humanities, and this volume provides multiple tools with which to
build such a defense. * Kevin Schilbrack, Reading Religion *