| After We Deconstruct Religion, Then What? A Case For Critical Realism |
2013 |
1466 |
Some scholars of religion have turned their attention from religion to "religion" and have then deconstructed the conceptual category, arguing that the concept of religion is an invention of the scholar that corresponds to nothing. In Schilbrack (201... |
| Assessing Wesley Wildman’s Religious Philosophy As Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry |
2012 |
1389 |
Wesley Wildman is one of the foremost philosophers of religion calling for the evolution of the discipline from its present narrow focus on theistic beliefs to become a discipline concerned with religions in all their diversity. Towards this end, he ... |
| Book Review of "Just War On Terror" |
2006 |
664 |
Book Review |
| Book Review Of Realism In Religion: A Pragmatist's Perspective |
2011 |
417 |
Book Review |
| Bruce Lincoln's philosophy |
2005 |
9157 |
Polemical Essay |
| The General and the Particular in Theravada Ethics: A Response to Charles Hallisey |
1997 |
618 |
In the most recent issue of JBE(vol.31996:32-43), Charles Hallisey calls into question what he sees as a pernicious assumption at work in the study of Theravàda ethics. The problem, according to Hallisey, is that many scholars who study Theravàda et... |
| Metaphysics in Dogen |
2000 |
781 |
It is my hypothesis that metaphysics is an overlooked but fruitful category for cross- cultural philosophy, and I would like to demonstrate this hypothesis with what may seem an unpromising example, the writings of the Zen Buddhist teacher Dogen Kige... |
| Myth and Metaphysics |
2000 |
3815 |
This paper defends the assertion that among the things that religions teach, inculcate, and celebrate are understandings of the world that are metaphysical in scope, and that these metaphysical views are often taught, inculcated, and celebrated throu... |
| New Directions For Philosophy Of Religion: Four Proposals |
2012 |
2444 |
This set of papers explores the topic of "Possible Futures for Philosophy of Religion." Though the field of philosophy of religion today has grown relatively narrow, these four papers seek to stretch it back out and all four are (as befitting our top... |
| Problems for a Complete Naturalism |
1994 |
514 |
American naturalism has had an on-again, off-again relationship with metaphysics. Some naturalists have agreed with John Dewey who saw his approach as not only compatible with but also inseparable from"a detection and description of the generic trait... |
| Process Thought and Bridge Building: A Response to Stephen K. White |
2011 |
1371 |
Stephen White focuses his attention on what he calls “depth” experiences and the role that cultivating such experiences could have in public life in a democracy. Depth experiences are those transformative experiences that lead people to question the ... |
| Re-Enchantment without Supernaturalism - A Process Philosophy of Religion |
2002 |
4142 |
Book Review |
| Reading Hume s Dialogues: A Veneration For True Religion |
2005 |
1603 |
Book Review |
| Religion, Models Of, And Reality: Are We Through With Geertz? |
2005 |
14002 |
Clifford Geertz's influential definition of religions as providing their members with both an ethos and a worldview—in his terms, both a "model for" and "model of" reality—has of late become a neuralgic point of contention in religious studies. In pa... |
| Religions: Are There Any? |
2010 |
2330 |
Several scholars have recently argued that the concept of “religion” is manufactured, constructed, invented, or imagined, but does not correspond to an objective reality, “out there” in the world. This paper seeks to evaluate that critique. I argue t... |
| Religious Diversity and the Closed Mind |
2003 |
662 |
Essay |
| Review of John Clayton, Religions, Reasons, and Gods: Essays in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion |
2007 |
1296 |
Book Review |
| [Review of] "Philosophical Explorations of New And Alternative Religious Movements." |
2013 |
18401 |
A book review of "Philosophical Explorations ofNew and Alternative Religious Movements." |
| [Review of] Robert C. Neville (ed.): The Human Condition: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project; Ultimate Realities: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project; Religious Truth: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project |
2002 |
1081 |
Book Review |
| [Review of] "Spirituality and The Ethics Of Torture" |
2010 |
565 |
Book Review |
| [Review of] Thomas P. Kasulis, Intimacy or Integrity: Philosophy and Cultural Difference |
2003 |
2115 |
Book Review |
| Ritual Metaphysics |
2004 |
3576 |
In this paper, I seek to show the fruitfulness of connecting the study of ritual activities to the ritualists' metaphysics, which is to say, to their understanding of the necessary conditions of life. I suggest that some rituals may be seen as inscri... |
| Rules, Magic, and Instrumental Reason: A Critical Interpretation of Peter Winch s Philosophy of the Social Sciences |
2003 |
1585 |
Book Review |
| The Social Construction of Religion and Its Limits: A Critical Reading of Timothy Fitzgerald |
2012 |
21359 |
Several theorists argue that the concept of “religion” is not a cultural universal but rather emerged under particular historical and political conditions in the modern post-Reformation west. “Religion,” they say, is a social construction. What are t... |
| The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value |
2007 |
692 |
Book Review |
| The Study of Religious Belief after Donald Davidson |
2002 |
2250 |
Scholars in religious studies are increasingly drawing important insights from Davidson's philosophy of language. Unfortunately, the most prominent of Davidson's interpreters in religious studies have been Rortian neopragmatists who, I argue, have r... |
| Teaching Comparative Religious Ethics - A Review Essay |
2002 |
3622 |
Though others have surveyed the different methods in comparative religious ethics, relatively little attention has been given to different approaches to pedagogy (exceptions include Lovin and Reynolds; Juergens-meyer; Twiss). The field of comparative... |
| Theorizing Religion and the Role of Philosophy |
2015 |
1528 |
This paper is a response to Patrick Hart’s “Theory, Method, and Madness in ReligiousStudies,” and it argues that philosophy is presupposed and therefore ineliminablewhen theorizing religions. |
| The Unity of Knowledge and Action: Toward a Nonrepresentational Theory of Knowledge |
2003 |
2082 |
Book Review |
| The Uses of Paradox: Religion, Self-Transformation, and The Absurd |
2009 |
1717 |
Book Review |
| What Isn't Religion? |
2013 |
8727 |
This article is motivated by the sense that the category of religion has become sprawling, overly inclusive, and unwieldy. This problem is partly be-
cause the multiple definitions of religion in play today are so various and divergent, but it is al... |
| Wittgensteinian Values: Philosophy, Religious Belief and Descriptivist Methodology |
2004 |
1273 |
Book Review |