Engaging Philosophies of Religion

Gereon Kopf is Professor of East Asian Religions and Philosophy of Religion at Luther College, USA. He is the Editor of the Journal of Buddhist Studies.Purushottama Bilimoria Adjunct Lecturer at the California State University, USA and Principal Fellow of Historical and Philosophical Studies at The University of Melbourne, Australia. He is Senior Fellow Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and Editor-in-Chief of Sophia, Journal of Philosophy of Religion.

• Prologue (Gereon Kopf)Part I: Philosophies of Religion Engaging Worldviews1) “Rethinking Christian Theism: Exploring the Monotheistic Paradigm” (Aaron Simmons)2) “Ibn al-'Arabi's 'Knots in the Real': Exploring the Insan-ity Paradigm” (Oludamini Oguannike)3) “Correlational Cosmologies: Exploring the Qi-Based Paradigm” (Leah Kalmanson)4) “Contemplation and Neuroscience: Exploring the Embodiment Paradigm” (Laura Weed)5) "Philosophy of Religion without the Supernatural: Exploring the Naturalist Paradigm” (Kevin Schilbrack)6) “Faith and Reason Beyond Words: Exploring the Visual-Ontological and Visual-Epistemological paradigms” (Peter Nekola)Part II: Philosophies of Religion Engaging Methods of Inquiry7) “Nyaya Critical Thinking on Matters Small and Great: Exploring the Rationalist Paradigm” (Purushottama Bilimoria, Agnieszka Rostalska)8) “Beyond Thought(s): Exploring the Trans-Rational Paradigm” (Louis Komjathy)9) “Subjectivity, Religion, and Otherness: Exploring the Feminist Paradigm” (Hye Young Kim)10) “"Interrogating 'religion': Exploring the Deconstructive Paradigm” (Nathan Loewen, Gereon Kopf)11) “The Mind-Culture Nexus: Exploring the Systems Paradigm” (Wesley Wildman, Yair Lior)12) “Anapotheotics: Exploring the Hermeneutic Paradigm” (Nathan Eric Dickman)Part III: Philosophies of Religion Engaging Practices13) “Somatophilia in Sikhism: Exploring the Aesthetic Paradigm” (Nikky-Guninder Gaur Singh)14) “The path of the unattached ones: Exploring the Renunciation Paradigm” (Marie-Hélène Gorisse)15) “One Lakota Perspective: Exploring the Relational Paradigm” (Fritz Detweiler)16) “Isintuism Among the Nguni of Southern Africa: Exploring the Communalist Paradigm” (Herbert Moyo)17) “Philosophy of Religion and Politics: Exploring the Power Paradigm” (Nathan Loewen)18) “The Journey Metaphor: Exploring the Comparativist Paradigm” (Timothy Knepper)Epilogue: “What did the Subaltern Whisper to the Conventional Philosopher of Religion” (Purushottama Bilimoria)Appendix: “The Rules of Engagement" (Gereon Kopf)List of tables and imagesGlossary of terms and namesIndex

With its revolutionary “multi-entry approach”, this book offers a mind-blowing reading experience and showcases the enrichment that comes from a multiplicity of voices. Each chapter carefully articulates its philosophical method or paradigm on religious theories, practices, assumptions, their embodied expressions, political significance, or neurological underpinnings. A treasure of comparison, respectful engagement, and careful disagreement awaits the reader as each chapter enters in dialogue with other chapters.