Through an National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant awarded in 2020, scholars of diverse philosophical and religious traditions will gather at Drake University to propose, test, and modify a set of categories and questions for cross-cultural philosophy of religion. Scholars will each propose a set of categories and questions for cross-cultural philosophy of religion that is internal to their tradition of expertise (day 1), next test these categories and questions against the other sets of categories and questions (morning of day 2), and finally offer a modified set of categories and questions that is suitable for cross-cultural philosophy of religion (afternoon of day 2). After the workshop, scholars will write up their sets of proposed, tested, and modified categories and questions in an essay for an edited collection. Tim Knepper, the director of project, will write a concluding essay that compares the proposals and offers an inclusive set of categories and questions for cross-cultural philosophy of religion.
In addition to NEH support, the workshop is sponsored by numerous offices and programs at Drake University (Center for the Humanities, The Comparison Project, Global Engagement Office).
The invited participants include the following:
Bilimoria, Purushottama. Graduate Theological Union
Detwiler, Fritz. Adrian College
Gorisse, Marie-Hélène. Ghent University
Kalmanson, Leah. Drake University
Kim, Halla. University of Nebraska-Omaha
Knepper, Timothy. Drake University – project director
Komjathy, Louis. University of San Diego
Kopf, Gereon. Luther College
Loewen, Nathan. University of Alabama – project co-director
Moyo, Herbert. University of KwaZulu Natal
Ogunnaike, Ayodeji. Bowdoin College
Ogunnaike, Oludamini. University of Virginia
Park, Jin. American University
Patil, Parimal. Harvard University
Schilbrack, Kevin. Appalachian State University
Simmons, J. Aaron. Furman University
Singh, Nikky. Colby College
You, Bin. Minzu University of China