Engaging Philosophies of Religion

How can philosophy of religion become more diverse in content and method? How can we take a multiplicity of stories into account and teach a truly inclusive philosophy of religion? This edited collection invites us to rethink philosophy of religion by offering 18 distinct approaches to teaching philosophy of religion. Engaging texts and thinkers from multiple traditions and standpoints, it constructs a method and terminology of philosophy of religion and presents an opportunity to change philosophy of religion at a fundamental level.Each chapter outlines a framework for approaching religion within a tradition: monotheism in Christianity, Insan -ity in Akbari Sufism, Qi in Daoism, embodiment in neuroscience, naturalism in the atheism debates, and non-territorialism located in 19th century debates on cartography. Drawing from religions and philosophies from around the world and across history, contributors take care to stress the philosophical systems that metaphysical and moral truths belong to. Guided by the principle that traditions are not monolithic but diverse, and categories such as "indigenous religions" are political rather than descriptive in nature, they acknowledge historical context shapes the development of any philosophical system. It is now openly acknowledged that if we do not change the underlying framework of the way we do philosophy of religion, we will always create subalterns. Promoting active interaction, this innovative and forward-looking collection points to a new way of dong philosophy of religion.>

Auteur
Gereon Kopf is Professor of East Asian religions and philosophy of religion at Luther College, USA. Purushottama Bilimoria is Principal Fellow of Historical and Philosophical Studies at The University of Melbourne, Australia.Nathan R. B. Loewen is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, USA.

Contenu
Prologue (Gereon Kopf)

Part I: Philosophies of Religion Engaging Worldviews
1) Rethinking Christian Theism: Exploring the Monotheistic Paradigm (Aaron Simmons)
2) Ibn al-'Arabi's 'Knots in the Real': Exploring the Insan-ity Paradigm (Oludamini Oguannike)
3) Correlational Cosmologies: Exploring the Qi-Based Paradigm (Leah Kalmanson)
4) Contemplation and Neuroscience: Exploring the Embodiment Paradigm (Laura Weed)
5) "Philosophy of Religion without the Supernatural: Exploring the Naturalist Paradigm (Kevin Schilbrack)
6) Faith and Reason Beyond Words: Exploring the Visual-Ontological and Visual-Epistemological paradigms (Peter Nekola)

Part II: Philosophies of Religion Engaging Methods of Inquiry
7) Nyaya Critical Thinking on Matters Small and Great: Exploring the Rationalist Paradigm (Purushottama Bilimoria, Agnieszka Rostalska)
8) Beyond Thought(s): Exploring the Trans-Rational Paradigm (Louis Komjathy)
9) Subjectivity, Religion, and Otherness: Exploring the Feminist Paradigm (Hye Young Kim)
10) "Interrogating 'religion': Exploring the Deconstructive Paradigm (Nathan Loewen, Gereon Kopf)
11) The Mind-Culture Nexus: Exploring the Systems Paradigm (Wesley Wildman, Yair Lior)
12) Anapotheotics: Exploring the Hermeneutic Paradigm (Nathan Eric Dickman)

Part III: Philosophies of Religion Engaging Practices
13) Somatophilia in Sikhism: Exploring the Aesthetic Paradigm (Nikky-Guninder Gaur Singh)
14) The path of the unattached ones: Exploring the Renunciation Paradigm (Marie-Hélène Gorisse)
15) One Lakota Perspective: Exploring the Relational Paradigm (Fritz Detweiler)
16) Isintuism Among the Nguni of Southern Africa: Exploring the Communalist Paradigm (Herbert Moyo)
17) Philosophy of Religion and Politics: Exploring the Power Paradigm (Nathan Loewen)
18) The Journey Metaphor: Exploring the Comparativist Paradigm (Timothy Knepper)

Epilogue: What did the Subaltern Whisper to the Conventional Philosopher of Religion (Purushottama Bilimoria)
Appendix: The Rules of Engagement" (Gereon Kopf)
List of tables and images
Glossary of terms and names
Index