Much philosophical thinking about religion in the Anglophone world has been hampered by the constraints of Eurocentrism, colonialism and orientalism. Addressing such limitations head-on, this exciting collection develops models for exploring global diversity in order to bring philosophical studies of religion into the globalized 21st century.
Drawing on a wide range of critical theories and methodologies, and incorporating ethnographic, feminist, computational, New Animist and cognitive science approaches, an international team of contributors outline the methods and aims of global philosophy of religion. From considering the importance of orality in African worldviews to interacting with Native American perspectives on the cosmos and investigating contemplative studies in Hinduism, each chapter demonstrates how expertise in different methods can be applied to various geographical regions, building constructive options for philosophical reflections on religion.
Diversifying Philosophy of Religion raises important questions regarding who speaks for and represents religious traditions, setting the agenda for a truly inclusive philosophy of religion that facilitates multiple standpoints.
Author(s): Nathan R. B. Loewen; Agnieszka Rostalska (editors)
Series: Expanding Philosophy of Religion
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 342
City: London
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Editor’s introduction
Part I: Critique and methods
Chapter 1: Deprovincializing philosophy of religion: From ‘Faith and Reason’ to the postcolonial revaluation of religious epistemologies
Chapter 2: Postcolonialism and the question of global-critical philosophy of religion
Chapter 3: Why philosophers of religion don’t need ‘Religion’ – at least not for now
Chapter 4: Re-envisioning philosophy of religion from a feminist perspective
Chapter 5: Is philosophy of religion racist?
Chapter 6: Philosophy of religion beyond belief: Thinking with anthropology’s new animists
Chapter 7: Theory and method in the philosophy of religion in China’s Song dynasty
Chapter 8: The theory and practice of the multi-entry approach
Chapter 9: Comparison of religious ideas in philosophy of religion
Chapter 10: The relevance of scriptures
Part II: Case studies
Chapter 11: Ethnographically informed philosophy of religion in a study of Assamese Goddess worship
Chapter 12: Praxis
Chapter 13: Nishida Kitarō’s ‘I and Thou’ through the work of Jessica Benjamin: Towards the issue of equality
Chapter 14: The Nguni traditional ‘religious’ thoughts: The Isintu philosophy of the Zulu/Ndebele people
Chapter 15: Approaching a Lakota philosophy of religion
Chapter 16: Yasukuni, Okinawa and Fukushima: Philosophy of sacrifice in the nuclear age
Chapter 17: Technology and the spiritual: From prayer bots to the singularity
Chapter 18: Can you see the seer? Approaching consciousness from an Advaita Vedānta perspective
Chapter 19: The danger in diversifying philosophy of religion
Index
