Kenneth G Mackendrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 275595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth G Mackendrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth G |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackendrick |
| SIGNATURE | MACKENDRICK K G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Religion, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba331 Fletcher Argue Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 5V5Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Future of Religious History in Habermas’s Critical Theory of Religion
In Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age Hans Kippenberg argues that the history of religions is the creative work-product of a cultural and political identity crisis, one in which the comparative history of religions became a means for some European scholars to uncouple from an increasingly halfhearted attachment to Christianity and re-experience their own history in a dynamic new form. A future for religion was thus found in the creat…
The Public Nature of Critical Discourses on “Religion”
Review Essay of William E. Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon’s The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of ‘Religion’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Postmetaphysical Thinking and the Philosophy of Religion
This essay focuses on Chapter Six, “Are Religions Out of Touch with Reality?” of Kevin Schilbrack’s Philosophy and the Study of Religion: A Manifesto . Two objections are discussed: the rehabilitation of metaphysics and the concept “unmediated experience.” Throughout, Jürgen Habermas’s postmetaphysical communicative theoretic is drawn upon to field reasonable alternatives to Schilbrack’s proposals
We Have an Imaginary Friend in Jesus
This article investigates the plausibility of using studies of imaginative play to illuminate and explain the contemporary prevalence and popularity of religious imaginal dialogue. Emphasis is given to conceptual considerations arising from the application of recent findings in the neuroscience of social cognition and cognitive theories of childhood development to the study of religion
Intersubjectivity and the 'Revival of Death
The aim of the essay is to provide an introductory analysis of the potentially negative effects of religious or spiritual narratives invoked or encouraged when death is near. Drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas and Jessica Benjamin, I argue that the encouragement of the unchecked expression of feelings coupled with the view that all individuals are sacred and have a sacred story promotes a potentially inhibited and inhibiting thanatological di…
The Future of Religious History in Habermas’s Critical Theory of Religion
In Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age Hans Kippenberg argues that the history of religions is the creative work-product of a cultural and political identity crisis, one in which the comparative history of religions became a means for some European scholars to uncouple from an increasingly halfhearted attachment to Christianity and re-experience their own history in a dynamic new form. A future for religion was thus found in the creat…
Intersubjectivity and the 'Revival of Death
The aim of the essay is to provide an introductory analysis of the potentially negative effects of religious or spiritual narratives invoked or encouraged when death is near. Drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas and Jessica Benjamin, I argue that the encouragement of the unchecked expression of feelings coupled with the view that all individuals are sacred and have a sacred story promotes a potentially inhibited and inhibiting thanatological di…
Intersubjectivity and the 'Revival of Death
The aim of the essay is to provide an introductory analysis of the potentially negative effects of religious or spiritual narratives invoked or encouraged when death is near. Drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas and Jessica Benjamin, I argue that the encouragement of the unchecked expression of feelings coupled with the view that all individuals are sacred and have a sacred story promotes a potentially inhibited and inhibiting thanatological di…
We Have an Imaginary Friend in Jesus
This article investigates the plausibility of using studies of imaginative play to illuminate and explain the contemporary prevalence and popularity of religious imaginal dialogue. Emphasis is given to conceptual considerations arising from the application of recent findings in the neuroscience of social cognition and cognitive theories of childhood development to the study of religion
The Future of Religious History in Habermas’s Critical Theory of Religion
In Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age Hans Kippenberg argues that the history of religions is the creative work-product of a cultural and political identity crisis, one in which the comparative history of religions became a means for some European scholars to uncouple from an increasingly halfhearted attachment to Christianity and re-experience their own history in a dynamic new form. A future for religion was thus found in the creat…
The Public Nature of Critical Discourses on “Religion”
Review Essay of William E. Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon’s The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of ‘Religion’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Postmetaphysical Thinking and the Philosophy of Religion
This essay focuses on Chapter Six, “Are Religions Out of Touch with Reality?” of Kevin Schilbrack’s Philosophy and the Study of Religion: A Manifesto . Two objections are discussed: the rehabilitation of metaphysics and the concept “unmediated experience.” Throughout, Jürgen Habermas’s postmetaphysical communicative theoretic is drawn upon to field reasonable alternatives to Schilbrack’s proposals
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)