Difference in Philosophy of Religion

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-74252-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

This title was first published in 2003. Can difference be subordinated to identity, simplicity or diversity? Or does it make a difference to the entire way in which we think? This book challenges the dominant agenda in the discipline of philosophy of religion by exploring issues of difference that have hitherto been obscured. It draws together some of the most innovative work in philosophical thinking about religion by some of the most creative and radical new thinkers in the field. Moving beyond debates between believers and skeptics, the contributors draw on critical theory to address differences in rationality, gender, tradition, culture and politics, showing how it is possible to think differently. Assumptions about rational neutrality, belief, tradition, experience and identity that undergird the rational exploration of classical theism are deconstructed. Instead it becomes important to explore a critical ethical reasoning, religious performance, internal religious tensions, location in culture, and a relation to exteriority as the groundwork for a future philosophy of religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodchild, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction, Philip Goodchild; Religion of philosophy: The ontological argument for existence, Brayton Polka; Divine and graven images: the contemporaneity of theory and the Bible, Avron Kulak; Traversing the infinite through Augustine and Derrida, Mark Cauchi; Sexual difference: Beyond belief: sexual difference and religion after ontotheology, Ellen T. Armour; Towards a feminist philosophy of ritual and bodily practice, Amy M. Hollywood; Locating difference in traditions: What if religio remained untranslatable?, Arvind-Pal S. Mandair; Virtual corpus: solicitous mutilation and the body of tradition, Navdeep Singh Mandair; Religious 'worlds' and their alien invaders, Paulo Gonçalves; Thinking a critical theory of postcolonialism Islam, Youssef Yacoubi; Locating experience in culture: Fantasy, imagination and the possibility of experience, Paul Fletcher; Religious materialism: Bataille, Deleuze/Guattari and the sacredness of late capital, Jim Urpeth; Political difference: Politics, pluralism and the philosophy of religion: an essay on exteriority, Philip Goodchild

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Goodchild