{"product_id":"philosophy-and-the-study-of-religions-isbn-9781444330526","title":"Philosophy and the Study of Religions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e advocates a radical transformation of the discipline from its current, narrow focus on questions of God, to a fully global form of critical reflection on religions in all their variety and dimensions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOpens the discipline of philosophy of religion to the religious diversity that characterizes the world today\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBuilds bridges between philosophy of religion and the other interpretative and explanatory approaches in the field of religious studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a manifesto for a global approach to the subject that is a practice-centred rather than a belief-centred activity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGives attention to reflexive critical studies of 'religion' as socially constructed and historically located\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: The Full Task of Philosophy of Religion 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. What is “Traditional Philosophy of Religion”? 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. The First Task of Philosophy of Religion 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiii. The Second Task of Philosophy of Religion 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiv. The Third Task of Philosophy of Religion 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ev. What is the Big Idea? 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographic Essay 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndnotes 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Are Religious Practices Philosophical? 29\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. Toward a Philosophy of Religious Practice 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. Embodiment as a Paradigm for Philosophy of Religion 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiii. Conceptual Metaphors and Embodied Religious Reason 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiv. Religious Material Culture as Cognitive Prosthetics 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ev. A Toolkit for the Philosophical Study of Religious Practices 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographic Essay 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndnotes 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: Must Religious People Have Religious Beliefs? 53\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. The Place of Belief in the Study of Religions 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. Objections to the Concept of Religious Belief 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiii. Holding One’s Beliefs in Public 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiv. What We Presuppose When We Attribute Beliefs 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ev. The Universality of Belief 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographic Essay 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndnotes 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Do Religions Exist? 83\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. The Critique of “Religion” 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. The Ontology of “Religion” 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiii. Can There be Religion Without “Religion”? 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiv. “Religion” as Distortion 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ev. The Ideology of “Religion” 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographic Essay 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndnotes 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: What Isn’t Religion? 113\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. Strategies for Defining Religion 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. Making Promises: The Functional or Pragmatic Aspect of Religion 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiii. Keeping Promises: The Substantive or Ontological Aspect of Religion 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiv. The Growing Variety of Religious Realities 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ev. What this Definition Excludes 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographic Essay 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndnotes 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Are Religions Out of Touch With Reality? 149\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. Religious Metaphysics in a Postmetaphysical Age 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. Antimetaphysics Today 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiii. Constructive Postmodernism and Unmediated Experience 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiv. Unmediated Experience and Metaphysics 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ev. The Rehabilitation of Religious Metaphysics 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographic Essay 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndnotes 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: The Academic Study of Religions: a Map With Bridges 175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ei. Religious Studies as a Tripartite Field 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eii. Describing and Explaining Religious Phenomena 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiii. Evaluating Religious Phenomena 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiv. Do Evaluative Approaches Belong in the Academy? 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ev. Interdisciplinary Bridges 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographic Essay 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndnotes 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Here, informed by the work of a wide range of social theorists, anthropologists, and others, Schilbrack seeks to draw philosophers of religion out of their cultural insularity, through a consideration of concepts such as 'embodied knowledge,' to contemplate what 'religion' might be, feel like, and mean in 'the rest' of the world.\" (\u003ci\u003eChurch Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 4 September 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The book adds considerable momentum to the most innovative developments in philosophy of religion today.\" (\u003ci\u003eInt J Philos Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 March 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Schilbrack concludes with strong arguments on the cross-cultural study of religion and suggests a combination of functional (the work religion does in human lives) and substantive (what religion enables people to know). Each chapter includes a bibliographic essay that will make this book a delight for classroom use. \u003cb\u003eSumming Up: Highly recommended.\u003c\/b\u003e Lower-level undergraduates and above.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 January 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is a valuable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in either field. Similarly, scholars will find important issues raised in this volume that they often ignore given, as Schilbrack argues, the insularity that characterizes the philosophy of religion.\" (\u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 September 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Schilbrack\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Head of Department of Religion and Philosophy at Western Carolina University. Schilbrack has served as president of the American Academy of Religion for the Southeast, as a senior fellow with Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions, and as a participant in a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Development Seminar in Taiwan and Thailand. An award-winning teacher, he has published numerous articles in philosophy and theory of religion, and is the contributing editor of \u003ci\u003eThinking through Rituals: Philosophical Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eThe Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religious Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe knowledge we share of the world is growing and its boundaries shrinking, and consequently the field of religious studies is developing and changing as we become more familiar with the variety of religions across the globe in the twenty-first century. It is within this context of growth that Schilbrack provides a rallying call for a long-overdue transformation of the philosophy of religion. He argues for a shift from its current narrow focus on questions of God – primarily of interest to Christian theologians – to one providing a fully global critical reflection on religions in all their variety and dimensions. The time has come to shed the restrictive nature of traditional philosophy of religion, and open the discipline to the religious diversity that characterizes the world today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a manifesto for a philosophy of religion centered on the study of how religions are lived and practiced rather than an imposition of a set of intellectual values. It advocates a cross-cultural approach, not limited to questions of classical monotheism, but one in conversation with other fields of religious study. Philosophy of religion was invented in the Enlightenment and reflected the Eurocentric understanding of the world in that day; this manifesto persuasively argues that the discipline now needs reinventing in order to function in, and reflect our present, more complicated world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Schilbrack's important book proposes a transformation of the philosophy of religion which would, if taken seriously, remove its vices while preserving its virtues. He shows, with panache, that the insularity and intellectualism of the field can be overcome by extending its range to include nonwestern and nontheistic forms of religion, and by attending as much to practice as to belief. And he does this without compromising the seriousness of religious claims to truth. It's a considerable achievement.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePaul J. Griffiths, Warren Chair Catholic Theology, Duke University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is much-needed and long overdue. Kevin Schilbrack is concerned with a set of controversies that have agitated the field of religious studies for the past generation and more – controversies in which both the proper shape and very legitimacy of the field have seemed to be at stake. Patiently and thoroughly, Schilbrack works through these and sets out a series of robust and well-argued answers. The book not only articulates a program for philosophy of religion, but also displays that program in operation.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAndrew Dole, Amherst College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989779103973,"sku":"NP9781444330526","price":86.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444330526.jpg?v=1761785435","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/philosophy-and-the-study-of-religions-isbn-9781444330526","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}