Difference in Philosophy of Religion

by Philip Goodchild (Editor)

Can difference be subordinated to identity, simplicity or diversity? Or does it make a difference to the entire way in which we think? This book challenges the dominant agenda in the discipline of philosophy of religion by exploring issues of difference that have hitherto been obscured. It draws together some of the most innovative work in philosophical thinking about religion by some of the most creative and radical new thinkers in the field. Moving beyond debates between believers and skeptics, the contributors draw on critical theory to address differences in rationality, gender, tradition, culture and politics, showing how it is possible to think differently. Assumptions about rational neutrality, belief, tradition, experience and identity that undergird the rational exploration of classical theism are deconstructed. Instead it becomes important to explore a critical ethical reasoning, religious performance, internal religious tensions, location in culture, and a relation to exteriority as the groundwork for a future philosophy of religion. The challenging new directions for inquiry presented in this volume offer philosophers of religion, theologians, and critical and cultural theorists fresh insights into ways of addressing problems of religious difference.

Paperback

Published April 30, 2003

About the author

Philip Goodchild is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Among his books are Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire (1996), Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety (2002), Theology of Money (2007/2009), and, as editor, On Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise: A Symposium (2013).

Reviews

[Sara-Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

some really interesting essays in here. my school's loaning system so rudely stole it back from me before I could finish out the collection and I want to come back to this later.