Deprovincializing Philosophy of Religion

From “Faith and Reason” to the Postcolonial Revaluation of Religious Epistemologies

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ID8204723
AuthorsJacob Sherman (California Institute of Integral Studies, corresponding author), Jacob Holsinger Sherman (California Institute of Integral Studies)
Year2018
Volume86
Issue2
Pages341-363
Publication date2018-05-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jaarel/lfx069
OpenAlexW2905642778
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited19

While most textbook approaches to the philosophy of religion include a section variously entitled “Religious Epistemology,” “Faith and Reason,” or “The Rationality of Belief,” in this paper I argue that a deprovinicialized, global, and critical approach to the question of faith and reason might now appear more fully under the rubric of the postcolonial revaluation of emic epistemologies. Accordingly, a global-critical philosophy of religion will challenge standard assumptions within contemporary philosophy of religion regarding the normativity of certain approaches to rationality and its justification, on the one hand, and the justification of theism as the central religious question, on the other. I argue that such a deprovinicialized philosophy of religion, while challenging certain secular norms, may embrace a religious and philosophical realism without reenthroning a single religious worldview as either culturally or epistemologically hegemonic.

Epistemology · Faith · Philosophy of religion · Rationality · Realism · Religious philosophy · Rubric · Sociology · Theism · Western philosophy · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies · Theological Perspectives and Practices

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