What can philosophy contribute to the study of religion? This book argues that the study of religion needs philosophy in the form of multidisciplinary comparative inquiry. Contradicting the current tendency to regard philosophical reflection and the academic study of religion as independent endeavors best kept apart, Wesley J. Wildman brings them together, offering a broader vision than that of traditional 'philosophy of religion’ and surmounting many of its difficulties. His newer conception of 'religious philosophy’ is well suited to the modern, multicultural, secular university. Through multidisciplinary comparative inquiry, religious philosophy allows for a variety of approaches—from historical and analytical work to evocative description and theoretical evaluation of truth claims—and both secular and religious thinkers participate. The tasks and varieties of religious philosophy as they arc across the world’s religions and philosophies are discussed along with religious philosophy’s modern and postmodern contexts. Wildman’s thoughtful and thought-provoking book will be essential reading for all those concerned with the study of religion, present and future.
Spis treści
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
O autorze
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.
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