How might philosophical studies of religion enter the globalized, 21st-century world? Diversifying Philosophy of Religion: Critiques, Methods, and Case Studies is the first of four volumes whose contributions develop neglected topics and issues in the philosophy of religion.
Section 1: Critique and Methods
- Deprovincializing Philosophy of Religion: from “Faith and Reason” to the Postcolonial Revaluation of Religious Epistemologies – Jacob Sherman
- Postcolonialism and the Question of Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion – Andrew Irvine and Purushottama Bilimoria
- Why Philosophers of Religion Don’t Need “Religion”— At Least Not for Now – Tim Knepper
- Is Philosophy of Religion Racist? Sonia Sikka
- Re-envisioning Philosophy of Religion from a Feminist Perspective – Morny Joy
- Philosophy of Religion beyond Belief: Thinking with Anthropology’s New Animists – Lisa Landoe-Hedrick
- Theory and Method in the Philosophy of Religion in China’s Song-Dynasty – Leah Kalmanson
- The Theory and Practice of the Multi-Entry Approach – Gereon Kopf
- Comparison of Religious Ideas in Philosophy of Religion – Robert Neville
- The Relevance of Scriptures – Steve Smith
Section 2: Case Studies
- Ethnographically Informed Philosophy of Religion in a Study of Assamese Goddess Worship – Mikel Burley
- Praxis – Louis Komjathy
- Nishida Kitarō’s ‘I and Thou’ through the Work of Jessica Benjamin: Toward the Issue of Equality – Mayuko Uehara
- The Nguni traditional ‘religious’ thoughts: The Isintu philosophy of the Zulu/Ndebele – Herbert Moyo
- Approaching a Lakota Philosophy of Religion – Fritz Detwiler
- Yasukuni, Okinawa and Fukushima: Philosophy of Sacrifice in the Nuclear Age – Ching-Yuen Cheung
- Technology and the Spiritual: From Prayer Bots to the Singularity – Yvonne Förster
- Can you see the seer? Approaching Consciousness from an Advaita Vedānta Perspective – Varun Khanna