Wildman Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry

Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3237-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Argues that philosophy, as multidisciplinary comparative inquiry, is essential to the contemporary academic study of religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wildman, Wesley J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Religious Philosophy among Kindred Disciplines

Religious Philosophy as a Form of Philosophy
Religious Philosophy as a Form of Religious Studies
Religious Philosophy as a Form of Theology

2. Tasks, Contexts, and Traditions of Religious Philosophy

Tasks of Religious Philosophy
Contexts of Religious Philosophy
Traditions of Religious Philosophy

3. Religious Philosophy, Modernity, and Postmodernity

The Successes and Failures of Modern Epistemology
The Successes and Failures of Postmodern Criticism
Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity
Postmodernism and Apophasis in Religious Philosophy

4. Religious Philosophy and Multidisciplinarity

The Importance of Multidisciplinarity in Religious Philosophy
Case Studies on Multidisciplinarity
Incommensurability as Invitation

5. Religious Philosophy and Comparison

What is Comparison?
Comparing Approaches to Comparative Philosophy
Comparison and Religious Philosophy

6. A Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry

Problem Solving and Inquiry
The Biological and Sociological Basis of Inquiry
Controversial Features of the Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry

7. Religious Philosophy and Inquiry

Religious Dimensions of Inquiry
Religious Philosophy and the Demarcation Problem
Case Study: Religious Philosophy, Religion, and Secularism

8. Traditions in Transformation

The Ontotheological Tradition
The Cosmotheological Tradition
The Physicotheological Tradition
The Psychotheological Tradition
The Axiotheological Tradition
The Mysticotheological Tradition
Status Report

Afterword: Religious Philosophy in the Modern University
Summary of the Deconstructive Case in Support of Religious Philosophy
Summary of the Constructive Case in Support of Religious Philosophy
Religious Philosophy and the Diversity of Higher Education

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wesley J. Wildman is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at Boston University. His books include Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century, also published by SUNY Press, and Science and Religious Anthropology: A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life.