Descriptive vs. Theological Pluralism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8204584 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sonia Sikka (0000-0002-4074-902X, University of Ottawa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 705-712 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jaarel/lfab052 |
| OpenAlex | W3180607058 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Mikel Burley rightly complains about the parochialism of most philosophy of religion, joining a growing chorus of voices calling for this field to live up to its name by providing critical analyses of religion, not only Christian doctrine. Expanding the content of this subdiscipline to include a greater variety of religions is no mean task, however, as it raises complex questions about the very nature of the field. What are the proper aims and methodology of philosophy of religion? What range of expertise should scholars within this field possess? What even constitutes its subject matter—“religion”—as distinct from other topics within philosophy, such as metaphysics and ethics? Burley is to be commended for having waded into this difficult terrain to offer a comprehensive and well-illustrated proposal about the possible shape of a genuinely globalized philosophy of religion. In the course of his argument, he criticizes the inadequacies of some past...
Argument (complex analysis) · Doctrine · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Metaphysics · Parochialism · Philosophy of religion · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Variety (cybernetics) · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Religion and Society Interactions
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |