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Philosophy and the Study of Religions


Philosophy and the Study of Religions

A Manifesto
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos 1. Aufl.

von: Kevin Schilbrack

23,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 12.12.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9781118323076
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 248

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<p><b><i>Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto</i> 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.</b></p> <ul> <li>Opens the discipline of philosophy of religion to the religious diversity that characterizes the world today</li> <li>Builds bridges between philosophy of religion and the other interpretative and explanatory approaches in the field of religious studies</li> <li>Provides a manifesto for a global approach to the subject that is a practice-centred rather than a belief-centred activity</li> <li>Gives attention to reflexive critical studies of 'religion' as socially constructed and historically located</li> </ul>
<p>Preface xi</p> <p>Acknowledgments xix</p> <p><b>Chapter 1: The Full Task of Philosophy of Religion 1</b></p> <p>i. What is “Traditional Philosophy of Religion”? 3</p> <p>ii. The First Task of Philosophy of Religion 10</p> <p>iii. The Second Task of Philosophy of Religion 14</p> <p>iv. The Third Task of Philosophy of Religion 19</p> <p>v. What is the Big Idea? 24</p> <p>Bibliographic Essay 25</p> <p>Endnotes 27</p> <p><b>Chapter 2: Are Religious Practices Philosophical? 29</b></p> <p>i. Toward a Philosophy of Religious Practice 31</p> <p>ii. Embodiment as a Paradigm for Philosophy of Religion 33</p> <p>iii. Conceptual Metaphors and Embodied Religious Reason 36</p> <p>iv. Religious Material Culture as Cognitive Prosthetics 40</p> <p>v. A Toolkit for the Philosophical Study of Religious Practices 47</p> <p>Bibliographic Essay 49</p> <p>Endnotes 51</p> <p><b>Chapter 3: Must Religious People Have Religious Beliefs? 53</b></p> <p>i. The Place of Belief in the Study of Religions 55</p> <p>ii. Objections to the Concept of Religious Belief 57</p> <p>iii. Holding One’s Beliefs in Public 61</p> <p>iv. What We Presuppose When We Attribute Beliefs 66</p> <p>v. The Universality of Belief 70</p> <p>Bibliographic Essay 76</p> <p>Endnotes 80</p> <p><b>Chapter 4: Do Religions Exist? 83</b></p> <p>i. The Critique of “Religion” 85</p> <p>ii. The Ontology of “Religion” 89</p> <p>iii. Can There be Religion Without “Religion”? 92</p> <p>iv. “Religion” as Distortion 96</p> <p>v. The Ideology of “Religion” 101</p> <p>Bibliographic Essay 105</p> <p>Endnotes 110</p> <p><b>Chapter 5: What <i>Isn’t </i>Religion? 113</b></p> <p>i. Strategies for Defining Religion 115</p> <p>ii. Making Promises: The Functional or Pragmatic Aspect of Religion 121</p> <p>iii. Keeping Promises: The Substantive or Ontological Aspect of Religion 127</p> <p>iv. The Growing Variety of Religious Realities 129</p> <p>v. What this Definition Excludes 135</p> <p>Bibliographic Essay 141</p> <p>Endnotes 147</p> <p><b>Chapter 6: Are Religions Out of Touch With Reality? 149</b></p> <p>i. Religious Metaphysics in a Postmetaphysical Age 151</p> <p>ii. Antimetaphysics Today 154</p> <p>iii. Constructive Postmodernism and Unmediated Experience 158</p> <p>iv. Unmediated Experience and Metaphysics 163</p> <p>v. The Rehabilitation of Religious Metaphysics 167</p> <p>Bibliographic Essay 171</p> <p>Endnotes 172</p> <p><b>Chapter 7: The Academic Study of Religions: a Map With Bridges 175</b></p> <p>i. Religious Studies as a Tripartite Field 177</p> <p>ii. Describing and Explaining Religious Phenomena 180</p> <p>iii. Evaluating Religious Phenomena 185</p> <p>iv. Do Evaluative Approaches Belong in the Academy? 189</p> <p>v. Interdisciplinary Bridges 197</p> <p>Bibliographic Essay 203</p> <p>Endnotes 205</p> <p>Works Cited 207</p> <p>Index 223</p>
<p>"Here, informed by the work of a wide range of social theorists, anthropologists, and others, Schilbrack seeks to draw philosophers of religion out of their cultural insularity, through a consideration of concepts such as 'embodied knowledge,' to contemplate what 'religion' might be, feel like, and mean in 'the rest' of the world." (<i>Church Times</i>, 4 September 2015)</p> <p>"The book adds considerable momentum to the most innovative developments in philosophy of religion today." (<i>Int J Philos Religion</i>, 1 March 2015)</p> <p>"Schilbrack concludes with strong arguments on the cross-cultural study of religion and suggests a combination of functional (the work religion does in human lives) and substantive (what religion enables people to know). Each chapter includes a bibliographic essay that will make this book a delight for classroom use. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above." (<i>Choice</i>, 1 January 2015)</p> <p>"This book is a valuable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in either field. Similarly, scholars will find important issues raised in this volume that they often ignore given, as Schilbrack argues, the insularity that characterizes the philosophy of religion." (<i>Religious Studies Review</i>, 1 September 2014)</p>
<p><b>Kevin Schilbrack</b> teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Carolina University, situated in the gorgeous mountains of North Carolina, USA. A graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School and an award-winning teacher, he has published widely on the conceptual and philosophical issues that arise in the cross-cultural study of religions. He is the contributing editor of <i>Thinking through Myths</i> (2002) and <i>Thinking through Rituals</i> (2004) and <i>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religious Diversity</i> (forthcoming).
<p>"Schilbrack's important book proposes a transformation of the philosophy of religion which would, if taken seriously, remove its vices while preserving its virtues. He shows, with panache, that the insularity and intellectualism of the field can be overcome by extending its range to include nonwestern and nontheistic forms of religion, and by attending as much to practice as to belief. And he does this without compromising the seriousness of religious claims to truth. It's a considerable achievement."<br> <b>Paul J. Griffiths, Duke University</b> <p>"This book is much needed and long overdue. Kevin Schilbrack is concerned with a set of controversies that have agitated the field of religious studies for the past generation and more—controversies in which both the proper shape and very legitimacy of the field have seemed to be at stake. Patiently and thoroughly, Schilbrack works through these and sets out a series of robust and well-argued answers. Th e book not only articulates a program for philosophy of religion, but also displays that program in operation."<br> <b>Andrew Dole, Amherst College</b> <p>Th e knowledge we share of the world is growing and its boundaries shrinking, and consequently, the field of religious studies is developing and changing as we become more familiar with the variety of religions across the globe in the twenty-first century. It is within this context of growth that Schilbrack provides a rallying call for a long-overdue transformation of the philosophy of religion. He argues for a shift from its current narrow focus on questions of God—primarily of interest to Christian theologians—to one providing a fully global critical reflection on religions in all their variety and dimensions. Th e time has come to shed the restrictive nature of traditional philosophy of religion, and open the discipline to the religious diversity that characterizes the world today. <p>This is a manifesto for the philosophy of religion, centered on the study of how religions are lived and practiced rather than an imposition of a set of intellectual values. It advocates a cross-cultural approach, not limited to questions of classical monotheism, but one in conversation with other fields of religious study. Philosophy of religion was invented in the Enlightenment and reflected a Eurocentric understanding of the world; this manifesto persuasively argues that the discipline now needs reinventing in order to function in and reflect our present, more complicated world.
<p>"Schilbrack's important book proposes a transformation of the philosophy of religion which would, if taken seriously, remove its vices while preserving its virtues. He shows, with panache, that the insularity and intellectualism of the field can be overcome by extending its range to include nonwestern and nontheistic forms of religion, and by attending as much to practice as to belief. And he does this without compromising the seriousness of religious claims to truth. It's a considerable achievement."<br />—<b>Paul J. Griffiths, Warren Chair Catholic Theology, Duke University</b></p> <p>"This book is much-needed and long overdue. Kevin Schilbrack is concerned with a set of controversies that have agitated the field of religious studies for the past generation and more – controversies in which both the proper shape and very legitimacy of the field have seemed to be at stake. Patiently and thoroughly, Schilbrack works through these and sets out a series of robust and well-argued answers. The book not only articulates a program for philosophy of religion, but also displays that program in operation."<br />—<b>Andrew Dole, Amherst College</b></p>

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