RT Article
T1 Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto. By Kevin Schilbrack
JF Journal of the American Academy of Religion
VO 83
IS 1
SP 236
OP 260
A1 Burley, Mikel 1972-
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1560960248
AB THIS REVIEW ESSAY ROUNDTABLE consists of three reviews by Mikel Burley, Luke Fox, and William Wood. Their reviews are followed by a response from the manifesto's author, Kevin Schilbrack. Taken together, they explore the significance of Philosophy and the Study of Religions, both the book and its implications for future work in the philosophy of religion. Kevin Schilbrack's manifesto offers a diagnosis of the shortcomings of contemporary philosophy of religion and presents a new vision of how these shortcomings could fruitfully be remedied. The principal defects that Schilbrack identifies are three: first, the narrowness in the range of religious traditions that are usually discussed; secondly, an excessive intellectualism, in the sense that attention is almost exclusively devoted to beliefs, construed narrowly as the...
DO 10.1093/jaarel/lfu116