The Future of the Philosophy of Religion advocates a radical transformation of the discipline from its current, narrow focus on questions of God, to a fully global form of critical reflection on religions in all their variety and dimensions. Opens the discipline of philosophy of religion to the religious diversity that characterizes the world today Builds bridges between philosophy of religion and the other interpretative and explanatory approaches in the field of religious studies Provides a manifesto for a global approach to the subject that is a practice–centred rather than a belief–centred activity Gives attention to reflexive critical studies of ?religion? as socially constructed and historically located INDICE: Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: The Proper Task of Philosophy of Religion i. What is “traditional philosophy of religion”? ii. The first task of philosophy of religion iii. The second task of philosophy of religion iv. The third task of philosophy of religion v. What is the big idea? Chapter 2: Are Religious Practices Philosophical? i. Towards a philosophy of religious practice ii. Embodiment as a paradigm for philosophy of religion iii. Conceptual metaphors and embodied religious reason iv. Religious material culture as cognitive prosthetics v. A toolkit for the philosophical study of religious practices Chapter 3: Must Religious People Have Religious Beliefs? i. The place of belief in the study of religions ii. Objections to the concept of religious belief iii. Holding one’s beliefs in public iv. What we presuppose when we attribute beliefs v. The universality of belief Chapter 4: Do Religions Exist? i. The critique of “religion” ii. The ontology of “religion” iii. Can there be religion without “religion”? iv. “Religion” as distortion v. The ideology of “religion” Chapter 5: What Isn’t Religion? i. Strategies for defining religion ii. Making promises: The functional or pragmatic aspect of religion iii. Keeping promises: The substantive or ontological aspect of religion iv. The growing variety of religious realities v. What this definition excludes Chapter 6: Are Religions out of Touch with Reality? i. Religious metaphysics in a post–metaphysical age ii. Anti–metaphysics today iii. Constructive postmodernism and unmediated experience iv. Unmediated experience and metaphysics v. The rehabilitation of religious metaphysics Chapter 7: The Academic Study of Religions: A Map with Bridges i. Religious studies as a tripartite field ii. Describing and explaining religious phenomena iii. Evaluating religious phenomena iv. Do evaluative approaches belong in the academy? v. Interdisciplinary bridges Bibliographic essay Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3052-6
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 14/02/2014
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés