Thomas A Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1693787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas A Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2116-3792 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1902 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching Religion and Upholding Academic Freedom
The editors of the JRE collected short essays from scholars of religion in response to a recent incident at Hamline University that made national headlines. Last fall, Hamline University administrators refused to extend a contract to an adjunct professor of art history after a Muslim student accused her of Islamophobia for showing a 14th‐century image of Mohammad in an online class. The event provoked intense conversations about issues of academi…
Theory and Method and the Stakes of a Fragmented Discipline: Or, What Economics Taught Me About the Study of Religion
As a discipline, the academic study of religion is strikingly fragmented, with little engagement or shared criteria of excellence across subfields. Although important recent developments have expanded the traditions and peoples studied as well as the methods used, the current extent of fragmentation limits the impact of this diversification and pluralization. At a moment when the global pandemic is catalyzing profound pressures on our universitie…
Feeling, Representation, and Practice in Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
This chapter examines one of the most contested elements of Hegel’s corpus, his mature treatment of religion in his Berlin Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion. Emphasizing the need to approach the lectures in context, this chapter first situates Hegel’s philosophy of religion within his larger philosophical project. Doing so both illuminates why the material’s significance has been so debated and highlights what should and should not be assume…
Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion—and Vice Versa
Philosophy of religion today is characterized by a lacuna: little recent work has engaged with or contributed to broader developments in the academic study of religion. The result has been impoverishment on both sides: Broadly speaking, work in philosophy of religion is still strongly marked by an excessive focus on Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Judaism—almost to the exclusion of other religious traditions. Moreover, in many cases it has …
Overcoming a Stumbling Block: A Nontraditional Hegel for Religious Studies
Cloaked in a Wise Disguise
Religion, Reconciliation, and Modern Society: The Shifting Conclusions of Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
G. W. F. Hegel's greatest contributions regarding religion and politics stem from his abiding concern with social cohesion. While Hegel was interested in now classic questions regarding the role of religion in government, the focal point of his engagement with religion and politics lay in his view of religion's role in binding together a complex society in which a more traditional social order had been fragmented by interrelated economic, social,…
Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel
This book analyzes Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel analyzes Hegel's philosophy of religion and develops its significance for ongoing debates about the relation between religion and politics as well as the history of the conceptualization of religion. One of the most vital currents in contemporary Hegel scholarship argues that Hegel radicalizes, rather than reneges upon, Kant's critique of metaphysics. Critics have claimed that this new…
Ethnography, Anthropology, and Comparative Religious Ethics: Or Ethnography and the Comparative Religious Ethics Local
Recent ethnographic studies of lived ethics, such as those of Leela Prasad and Saba Mahmood, present valuable opportunities for comparative religious ethics. This essay argues that developments in philosophical and religious ethics over the last three decades have supported a strong interest in thick descriptions of what it means to be human. This anthropological turn has thereby laid important groundwork for the encounter between these scholars …
Beyond the Totalitarian: Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion in Recent Hegel Scholarship
Recent developments in Hegel scholarship have been dominated by two waves. Focusing on his complex conception of freedom, the first has transformed the dominant view of his ethical and political thought. The second, which has dramatic consequences for the interpretation of his philosophy of religion, reads Hegel as extending rather than repudiating Kant's critical project. These 'post-Kantian' interpretations have rejected the view of Hegel's log…
On the Limits of Narrative: Communities in Pluralistic Society
Frames of Comparison Anthropology and Inheriting Traditional Practices
This essay seeks to develop and illustrate an approach to comparison based on ad hoc frames. A frame is defined by a question, to which different thinkers can be seen as offering complementary and/or competing responses. Pursuing a middle ground between universalist conceptions of comparison and particularist rejections of comparison, this approach brings various positions into dialogue in a manner that is not inherently totalizing. The article d…
Anthropos and Ethics Categories of Inquiry and Procedures of Comparison
Building on influential work in virtue ethics, this collection of essays examines the categories of self, person, and anthropology as foci for comparative analysis. The papers unite reflections on theory and method with descriptive work that addresses thinkers from the modern West, Christian and Jewish Late Antiquity, early China, and other settings. The introduction sets out central methodological issues that are subsequently taken up in each es…
Actions as the Ties That Bind Love, Praxis, and Community in the Thought of Gustavo Gutierrez
Gustavo Gutiérrez develops an account of human action or praxis that I—borrowing the language of Charles Taylor—label expressivist. Human action must be understood as expressing an underlying potential or impulse that only becomes real through expression in action. Gutiérrez's expressivism is fundamental to his view of the relationship between faith and love, his notion of three dimensions of liberation/salvation, and his understanding of the fun…
For King and Country: The Maturing of George Washington, 1748-1760
Journal Article For King and Country: The Maturing of George Washington, 1748–1760. By Thomas A. Lewis. (New York: HarperCollins, 1993. xxii, 296 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-06-016777-7.) Get access John Ferling John Ferling West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 655–656, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081215 Publish…
The Guns of Cedar Creek
The Guns of Cedar Creek
Robert K. Krick; The Guns of Cedar Creek. By Thomas A. Lewis. (New York: Harper & Row, 1988. xii + 371 pp. $24.95.), Journal of American History, Volume 76
The Old Kingdom of Kongo
The Ancient Kingdom of Kongo: Its Present Position and Possibilities: Discussion
that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover
The Ancient Kingdom of Kongo: Its Present Position and Possibilities
Beyond the Totalitarian: Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion in Recent Hegel Scholarship
Recent developments in Hegel scholarship have been dominated by two waves. Focusing on his complex conception of freedom, the first has transformed the dominant view of his ethical and political thought. The second, which has dramatic consequences for the interpretation of his philosophy of religion, reads Hegel as extending rather than repudiating Kant's critical project. These 'post-Kantian' interpretations have rejected the view of Hegel's log…
For King and Country: The Maturing of George Washington, 1748-1760
Journal Article For King and Country: The Maturing of George Washington, 1748–1760. By Thomas A. Lewis. (New York: HarperCollins, 1993. xxii, 296 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-06-016777-7.) Get access John Ferling John Ferling West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 655–656, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081215 Publish…
The Ancient Kingdom of Kongo: Its Present Position and Possibilities
The Ancient Kingdom of Kongo: Its Present Position and Possibilities: Discussion
that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover
The Ancient Kingdom of Kongo: Its Present Position and Possibilities
The Old Kingdom of Kongo
The Guns of Cedar Creek
Robert K. Krick; The Guns of Cedar Creek. By Thomas A. Lewis. (New York: Harper & Row, 1988. xii + 371 pp. $24.95.), Journal of American History, Volume 76
The Guns of Cedar Creek
For King and Country: The Maturing of George Washington, 1748-1760
Journal Article For King and Country: The Maturing of George Washington, 1748–1760. By Thomas A. Lewis. (New York: HarperCollins, 1993. xxii, 296 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-06-016777-7.) Get access John Ferling John Ferling West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 655–656, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081215 Publish…
Frames of Comparison Anthropology and Inheriting Traditional Practices
This essay seeks to develop and illustrate an approach to comparison based on ad hoc frames. A frame is defined by a question, to which different thinkers can be seen as offering complementary and/or competing responses. Pursuing a middle ground between universalist conceptions of comparison and particularist rejections of comparison, this approach brings various positions into dialogue in a manner that is not inherently totalizing. The article d…
Anthropos and Ethics Categories of Inquiry and Procedures of Comparison
Building on influential work in virtue ethics, this collection of essays examines the categories of self, person, and anthropology as foci for comparative analysis. The papers unite reflections on theory and method with descriptive work that addresses thinkers from the modern West, Christian and Jewish Late Antiquity, early China, and other settings. The introduction sets out central methodological issues that are subsequently taken up in each es…
Actions as the Ties That Bind Love, Praxis, and Community in the Thought of Gustavo Gutierrez
Gustavo Gutiérrez develops an account of human action or praxis that I—borrowing the language of Charles Taylor—label expressivist. Human action must be understood as expressing an underlying potential or impulse that only becomes real through expression in action. Gutiérrez's expressivism is fundamental to his view of the relationship between faith and love, his notion of three dimensions of liberation/salvation, and his understanding of the fun…
On the Limits of Narrative: Communities in Pluralistic Society
Beyond the Totalitarian: Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion in Recent Hegel Scholarship
Recent developments in Hegel scholarship have been dominated by two waves. Focusing on his complex conception of freedom, the first has transformed the dominant view of his ethical and political thought. The second, which has dramatic consequences for the interpretation of his philosophy of religion, reads Hegel as extending rather than repudiating Kant's critical project. These 'post-Kantian' interpretations have rejected the view of Hegel's log…
Ethnography, Anthropology, and Comparative Religious Ethics: Or Ethnography and the Comparative Religious Ethics Local
Recent ethnographic studies of lived ethics, such as those of Leela Prasad and Saba Mahmood, present valuable opportunities for comparative religious ethics. This essay argues that developments in philosophical and religious ethics over the last three decades have supported a strong interest in thick descriptions of what it means to be human. This anthropological turn has thereby laid important groundwork for the encounter between these scholars …
Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel
This book analyzes Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel analyzes Hegel's philosophy of religion and develops its significance for ongoing debates about the relation between religion and politics as well as the history of the conceptualization of religion. One of the most vital currents in contemporary Hegel scholarship argues that Hegel radicalizes, rather than reneges upon, Kant's critique of metaphysics. Critics have claimed that this new…
Cloaked in a Wise Disguise
Religion, Reconciliation, and Modern Society: The Shifting Conclusions of Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
G. W. F. Hegel's greatest contributions regarding religion and politics stem from his abiding concern with social cohesion. While Hegel was interested in now classic questions regarding the role of religion in government, the focal point of his engagement with religion and politics lay in his view of religion's role in binding together a complex society in which a more traditional social order had been fragmented by interrelated economic, social,…
Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion—and Vice Versa
Philosophy of religion today is characterized by a lacuna: little recent work has engaged with or contributed to broader developments in the academic study of religion. The result has been impoverishment on both sides: Broadly speaking, work in philosophy of religion is still strongly marked by an excessive focus on Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Judaism—almost to the exclusion of other religious traditions. Moreover, in many cases it has …
Overcoming a Stumbling Block: A Nontraditional Hegel for Religious Studies
Feeling, Representation, and Practice in Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
This chapter examines one of the most contested elements of Hegel’s corpus, his mature treatment of religion in his Berlin Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion. Emphasizing the need to approach the lectures in context, this chapter first situates Hegel’s philosophy of religion within his larger philosophical project. Doing so both illuminates why the material’s significance has been so debated and highlights what should and should not be assume…
Theory and Method and the Stakes of a Fragmented Discipline: Or, What Economics Taught Me About the Study of Religion
As a discipline, the academic study of religion is strikingly fragmented, with little engagement or shared criteria of excellence across subfields. Although important recent developments have expanded the traditions and peoples studied as well as the methods used, the current extent of fragmentation limits the impact of this diversification and pluralization. At a moment when the global pandemic is catalyzing profound pressures on our universitie…
Teaching Religion and Upholding Academic Freedom
The editors of the JRE collected short essays from scholars of religion in response to a recent incident at Hamline University that made national headlines. Last fall, Hamline University administrators refused to extend a contract to an adjunct professor of art history after a Muslim student accused her of Islamophobia for showing a 14th‐century image of Mohammad in an online class. The event provoked intense conversations about issues of academi…
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