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How can philosophy of religion become more diverse in content and method? How can we take a multiplicity of stories into account and teach a truly inclusive philosophy of religion?

It is now openly acknowledged that if we do not change the underlying framework of the way we do philosophy of religion, we will always create subalterns. Here is an invitation to rethink Philosophy of Religion. Engaging with texts and thinkers from multiple traditions, this book offers 18 distinct approaches to doing Philosophy of Religion and presents an opportunity to change Philosophy of Religion at a fundamental level.

Drawing on religions and philosophies from across history and around the world, each chapter outlines a framework for approaching religion from a different standpoint: monotheism in Christianity, Qi in Daoism, embodiment in neuroscience, naturalism in the atheism debates, and non-territorialism in 19th-century debates on cartography.

Contributors identify the many philosophical systems that guide metaphysical and moral truths and adhere to the principle that traditions are not monolithic but diverse. They recognise that categories such as “indigenous religions” are political rather than descriptive in nature.

Innovative and forward-looking, this collection constructs a new method and terminology that promotes active interaction. It is essential reading for students and teachers looking for a new way of doing Philosophy of Religion.

Table of Contents

Preface
Gereon Kopf, Purushottama Bilimoria, Nathan Loewen

Introduction: The Multi-Entry Approach
Gereon Kopf

Section I: Engaging Realities

Chapter 1: Rethinking Christian Theism: A (Non)Traditionalist Approach to Philosophy of Religion

J. Aaron Simmons

Chapter 2: Insan-ity or “Knots in the Real”: Ibn al-'Arabi's “Philosophy of Religion”
Oludamini Ogunnaike

Chapter 3: Qi-Cosmology
Leah Kalmanson

Chapter 4: Embodied Neuroscience as a New Paradigm for Philosophy of Religion
Laura E. Weed

Chapter 5: Naturalism and Philosophy of Religion
Kevin Schilbrack

Chapter 6: Faith and Reason Beyond Words: Maps, Visual-Ontological, and Visual-Epistemological Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion
Peter Nekola

Section II: Engaging Ways of Knowing

Chapter 7: Nyaya Critical Thinking on Matters Small and Great: Exploring the rational paradigm

Agnieszka Rostalska and Purushottama Bilimoria

Chapter 8: Trans-Rationalism
Louis Komjathy

Chapter 9: Subjectivity, Religion, and Otherness

Hye Young Kim

Chapter 10: Deconstruction under erasure in Derrida and Zen Buddhism

Nathan Loewen and Gereon Kopf

Chapter 11: A Systems Approach to Religion in the Mind-Culture Nexus
Wesley J. Wildman and Yair Lior

Chapter 12: Anapotheotics: a hermeneutic approach to religions as symbolic languages
Nathan Eric Dickman

Section III: Engaging Relationships

Chapter 13: Sensuous Quintet Paradigm of the Sikh Religions
Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

Chapter 14: The Jain renunciate paradigm of envisioning philosophy of religion
Marie-Hélène Gorisse

Chapter 15: Relationalism: a Lakota paradigm
Fritz Detwiler

Chapter 16: Isintuism the mother of communalism among the Nguni of Southern Africa

Herbert Moyo

Chapter 17: Power and Politics (Critical Theory): a first step
Nathan Loewen

Chapter 18: The Comparative Paradigm
Timothy Knepper

Epilogue: A Conversation on the Multi-Entry Approach
Gereon Kopf, Purushottama Bilimoria, Nathan Loewen

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published May 01 2025
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 368
ISBN 9781350348875
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series Expanding Philosophy of Religion
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Gereon Kopf

Gereon Kopf is Professor of East Asian religions a…

Anthology Editor

Purushottama Bilimoria

Purushottama Bilimoria is Principal Fellow of Hist…

Anthology Editor

Nathan R. B. Loewen

Nathan R. B. Loewen is Associate Professor in the…

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