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    Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto.Kevin Schilbrack - 2013 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    _Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto_ 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. Opens the discipline of philosophy of religion to the religious diversity that characterizes the world today Builds bridges between philosophy of religion and the other interpretative and explanatory approaches in the field of religious studies Provides a manifesto for a global (...)
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    Intimacy or Integrity: Philosophy and Cultural Difference.Kevin Schilbrack - 2002 - University of Hawaii Press.
    How can I know something? How can I convince someone of the rightness of my position? How does reality function? What is artistic creativity? What is the role of the state? It is well known that people from various cultures give dissimilar answers to such philosophical questions. After three decades in the cross-cultural study of ideas and values, Thomas Kasulis found that culture influences not only the answers to these questions, but often how one arrives at the answers. In generalizing (...)
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    A metaphysics for the study of religion: A critical reading of Russell McCutcheon.Kevin Schilbrack - 2020 - Critical Research on Religion 8 (1):87-100.
    Russell McCutcheon is one of the foremost proponents of what he calls “the critical study of religion,” that is, the shift to reflect critically on the concepts used in the academic study of religion, who invented them, and why. The critical study of religion leads to the realization that the concepts with which we think were invented by particular people, at a particular historical location, for a particular purpose. What are the philosophical implications of this? McCutcheon defends a debunking or (...)
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    Mathematics and the definitions of religion.Kevin Schilbrack - 2018 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 83 (2):145-160.
    In 2014, I published a proposal for a definition of “religion”. My goal was to offer a definition of this contentious term that would include Buddhism, Daoism, and other non-theistic forms of life widely considered religions in the contemporary world. That proposal suggested necessary and sufficient conditions for treating a form of life as a religious one. It was critiqued as too broad, however, on the grounds that it would include the study of math as a religion. How can one (...)
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    Language, Truth, and Religious Belief: Studies in Twentieth-Century Theory and Method in Religion.Kevin Schilbrack - 1999 - Oxford University Press on Demand.
    Why do many people think religion is subjective? Or symbolic? Or non-rational? This book brings together eighteen important twentieth-century essays on these questions, by authors ranging from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. The editors show that such questions are both quite modern and powerfully influential in our Western thinking about religious belief. Moreover, they lead directly into the three most popular theories that attempt to make sense of religion: positivism, functionalism, and relativism. Selecting essays that represent each (...)
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    The Future of Philosophy of Religion.Kevin Schilbrack - 2014 - Sophia 53 (3):383-388.
    This paper develops proposals for the future of philosophy of religion as a global discipline by replying to the responses to Philosophy and the Study of Religions from Andrew Irvine, J. Aaron Simmons, and James McLachlan.
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  7. Ritual Metaphysics.”.Kevin Schilbrack - 2002 - In Thinking through rituals: philosophical perspectives. New York: Routledge. pp. 128--147.
     
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    Thinking through rituals: philosophical perspectives.Kevin Schilbrack (ed.) - 2002 - New York: Routledge.
    Existentialism claims that there is no human reality except in action: pragmatism argues that meaning and truth are given only in practice. Wittgenstein calls for attention to forms of life, Marxism calls for attention to doing, and feminism calls for attention to the body. What do these tell us about ritual acts and their connection to spirit and to truth in Christianity and other world religions? Religious rituals have a special status as virtually pure forms of belief in action. Thinking (...)
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    Critical theory and the ontology of “religion”: A response to Thomas Lynch.Kevin Schilbrack - 2017 - Critical Research on Religion 5 (3):302-307.
    Thomas Lynch has proposed that scholars of religion can profitably follow Sally Haslanger’s lead and treat “religion,” as she treats race, as a social construction. He argues that this proposal resembles my treatment of “religion” in Philosophy and the Study of Religions, but it goes further by treating “religion” as what Haslanger calls a strongly pragmatic social construction, that is, a category that is solely the product of the use of the concept and which does not capture any feature in (...)
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    Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion.Kevin Schilbrack - 2023 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 44 (1):98-101.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion by Gabriel LevyKevin SchilbrackBeyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion. Gabriel Levy. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. 249 pp. $45.00 paperback; open access.The interdisciplinary field of religious studies includes both the humanities and social sciences in a tricky detente. Some religion scholars focus on interpreting texts, teachings, and rituals in an effort to grasp what religious (...)
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    Embodied Critical Realism.Kevin Schilbrack - 2014 - Journal of Religious Ethics 42 (1):167-179.
    Christian Smith's What Is a Person? provides an account of the person from the perceptive of critical realism. As a fellow critical realist, I support that philosophical position and in this response I seek to support it by connecting it to the embodied realism developed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. In order to bring the two forms of realism together, I critique both the relativism of embodied realism and the idea, found in Smith, that the person's awareness of the (...)
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  12. Introduction: on the use of philosophy in the study of myths.Kevin Schilbrack - 2002 - In Thinking through rituals: philosophical perspectives. New York: Routledge. pp. 1--17.
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    Myth and metaphysics.Kevin Schilbrack - 2000 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 48 (2):65-80.
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    (1 other version)Spiritual Values for Those Without Eternal Life.Kevin Schilbrack - 2019 - Sophia 58 (4):753-759.
    Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom offers a naturalistic, this-worldly theology with eloquence and heart. Nevertheless, from a religious studies perspective, there is a fair amount to criticize. This review essay identifies two shortcomings in this book and then develops a typology of religious teachings about eternal life in order to assess places where Hägglund’s critique succeeds.
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    Assessing Wesley Wildman’s Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry.Kevin Schilbrack - 2012 - Sophia 51 (2):303-309.
    Wesley Wildman is one of the foremost philosophers of religion calling for the evolution of the discipline from its present narrow focus on theistic beliefs to become a discipline concerned with religions in all their diversity. Towards this end, he proposes that philosophers of religion understand what they do as multidisciplinary comparative inquiry. This article assesses his proposal.
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    Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Religion: Conversations with Richard Rorty.Kevin Schilbrack - 1997 - Springer.
    A selection of 25 papers from a June 1995 conference in Highlands, North Carolina. Rorty himself presents the keynote address, Religious Faith, Intellectual Responsibility, and Romance, which will be published in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to William James. Other topics include a paleopragmatic philosophy of the history of philosophy, the pragmatic secularization of theology, a hiatus in the liberal pragmatic view of culture and religion, and listening to indigenous peoples and neo-pagans. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, (...)
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    Dale S. Wright, philosophical meditations on zen buddhism.Kevin Schilbrack - 2000 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 47 (3):175-177.
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    Metaphysics in dōgen.Kevin Schilbrack - 2000 - Philosophy East and West 50 (1):34-55.
    It is argued here that metaphysics is an overlooked but fruitful category for cross-cultural philosophy, and this hypothesis is demonstrated with the writings of Dōgen Kigen. A definition of metaphysics is introduced that, although drawn from the Western philosophical tradition, should be useful for the study of philosophy elsewhere, and its application to Dōgen is defended against popular interpretations that Dōgen's Zen is phenomenological rather than metaphysical.
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    Naturalism and Beyond: Religious Naturalism and Its Alternatives eds. by Niels Henrik Gregersen and Mikael Stenmark.Kevin Schilbrack - 2017 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 38 (2):229-232.
    "Naturalism" is still often identified with a reductive worldview that identifies the final real constituents of the world with the deliverances of the natural sciences—or perhaps only of physics. In the last thirty years, however, there has been a concerted effort among analytic philosophers to distinguish between that reductive "strict naturalism" and a new "liberal naturalism" that does not deny that mental states, human agency, and moral norms are also natural realities. (For liberal naturalism, see, for example, the essays collected (...)
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    Problems for a complete naturalism.Kevin Schilbrack - 1994 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 15 (3):269 - 291.
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    Process Thought and Bridge-Building.Kevin Schilbrack - 2011 - Process Studies 40 (2):370-376.
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    The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religious Diversity.Kevin Schilbrack (ed.) - 2015 - Wiley-Blackwell.
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    (1 other version)John Clayton, Religions, Reasons, and Gods: Essays in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion, Prepared for publication by Anne M. Blackburn and Thomas D. Carroll: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006, xvii + 372 pp. Cl. $100.00, #ISBN-10:0521421047 (hard back). [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 2007 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 62 (3):173-174.
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  24. Rationality, relativism, and religion: A reinterpretation of Peter Winch. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 2009 - Sophia 48 (4):399-412.
    Many point to Peter Winch’s discussion of rationality, relativism, and religion as a paradigmatic example of cultural relativism. In this paper, I argue that Winch’s relationship to relativism is widely misinterpreted in that, despite his pluralistic understanding of rationality, Winch does allow for universal features of culture in virtue of which cross-cultural understanding and even critique is possible. Nevertheless, I also argue that given the kind of cultural universals that Winch produces, he fails to avoid relativism. This is because in (...)
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    Teaching Comparative Religious Ethics: A Review Essay. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 2002 - Journal of Religious Ethics 30 (2):295 - 312.
    Though others have surveyed the different methods in comparative religious ethics, relatively little attention has been given to different approaches to pedagogy (exceptions include Lovin and Reynolds; Juergensmeyer; Twiss). The field of comparative religious ethics has now reached a level of maturity so that there are a variety of ways such courses can be taught. In this review I consider the approaches to comparative religious ethics found in four recent texts by Jacob Neusner, Darrell Fasching and Dell deChant, Regina Wolfe (...)
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    Analytic Theism, Hartshorne, and the Concept of God. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 1998 - Process Studies 27 (1):153-156.
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    Book Review: Jörg Rüpke, Religion and its History: A Critical Inquiry. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 2022 - Critical Research on Religion 10 (1):116-118.
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    Charley D. Hardwick and Donald A. Crosby (eds.), Pragmatis, neo-pragmatism, and religion: Conversations with Richard Rorty [american liberal religious thought, vol. 6]. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 1999 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 46 (1):49-51.
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    Nancy Frankenberry and Hans Penner (eds.), Language, truth, and religious belief: Studies in twentieth-century theories and methods in religion. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 2001 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 49 (1):63-65.
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    Robert C. Neville (ed.), The human condition: A volume in the comparative religious ideas project ; ultimate realities: A volume in the comparative religious ideas project ; religious truth: A volume in the comparative religious ideas project. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 2002 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 52 (3):191-193.
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    Robert Cummings Neville: Realism in religion: a pragmatist’s perspective: State University of New York Press, Albany, 2009, 265 pp, $75.00 , $24.95. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 2011 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 70 (3):247-249.
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    Review of Jim Kanaris, Ed., Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion: A Possible Future: Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018, ISBN: 9781438469096 (hb), 295 pp. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 2018 - Sophia 57 (2):353-355.
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    Review of The Philosophy of Religion and Advaita Vedānta: A Comparative Study in Religion and Reason by Arvind Sharma. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 1997 - Philosophy East and West 47 (4):596-598.
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    Thomas P. Kasulis, intimacy or integrity: Philosophy and cultural difference. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 2003 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 54 (1):57-59.
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    William Lad sessions: Reading hume’s dialogues: A veneration for true religion. [REVIEW]Kevin Schilbrack - 2005 - Faith and Philosophy 22 (3):383-385.