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.

• Preface Gereon Kopf, Purushottama Bilimoria, Nathan LoewenIntroduction: The Multi-Entry Approach Gereon KopfSection I: Engaging RealitiesChapter 1: Rethinking Christian Theism: A (Non)Traditionalist Approach to Philosophy of ReligionJ. Aaron SimmonsChapter 2: Insan-ity or “Knots in the Real”: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s “Philosophy of Religion”Oludamini OgunnaikeChapter 3: Qi-CosmologyLeah KalmansonChapter 4: Embodied Neuroscience as a New Paradigm for Philosophy of ReligionLaura E. WeedChapter 5: Naturalism and Philosophy of ReligionKevin Schilbrack Chapter 6: Faith and Reason Beyond Words: Maps, Visual-Ontological, and Visual-Epistemological Approaches to the Philosophy of ReligionPeter NekolaSection II: Engaging Ways of KnowingChapter 7: Nyaya Critical Thinking on Matters Small and Great: Exploring the rational paradigmAgnieszka Rostalska and Purushottama BilimoriaChapter 8: Trans-RationalismLouis Komjathy Chapter 9: Subjectivity, Religion, and OthernessHye Young Kim Chapter 10: Deconstruction under erasure in Derrida and Zen BuddhismNathan Loewen and Gereon KopfChapter 11: A Systems Approach to Religion in the Mind-Culture NexusWesley J. Wildman and Yair LiorChapter 12: Anapotheotics: a hermeneutic approach to religions as symbolic languagesNathan Eric DickmanSection III: Engaging RelationshipsChapter 13: Sensuous Quintet Paradigm of the Sikh ReligionsNikky-Guninder Kaur SinghChapter 14: The Jain renunciate paradigm of envisioning philosophy of religionMarie-Hélène GorisseChapter 15: Relationalism: a Lakota paradigmFritz Detwiler Chapter 16: Isintuism the mother of communalism among the Nguni of Southern AfricaHerbert MoyoChapter 17: Power and Politics (Critical Theory): a first stepNathan LoewenChapter 18: The Comparative ParadigmTimothy KnepperEpilogue: A Conversation on the Multi-Entry ApproachGereon Kopf, Purushottama Bilimoria, Nathan Loewen

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.