Introduction

Introduction

The two-day conference (which was generously sponsored by Cambridge University Press and the Spalding Trust as well as by the Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Leeds) was an opportunity for philosophers of religion with an interest in cross-cultural and multi-religious approache...

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Published in:Religious studies 2020-03, Vol.56 (1), p.1-3
Main Author: Burley, Mikel
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Cultural differences
Deleuze, Gilles
Derrida, Jacques
Editors
Foucault, Michel
Gadamer, Hans Georg (1900-2002)
Journals (Academic)
Philosophy
Religion
Religious studies
Traditions
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Summary:The two-day conference (which was generously sponsored by Cambridge University Press and the Spalding Trust as well as by the Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Leeds) was an opportunity for philosophers of religion with an interest in cross-cultural and multi-religious approaches to get together and share ideas, in an environment that was both cordial and critically robust. Having gone through the journal's usual rigorous peer-review process, the eight articles that constitute this special issue have all been submitted by participants in that conference. Not only do the approaches range across diverse cultural and religious traditions: a number of them also illustrate ways of bringing continental European philosophy into productive dialogue (both constructive and critical) with ideas of a broadly analytic flavour. [...]Cheetham brings the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion into critical engagement with the religious pluralisms of figures such as John Hick and Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Schilbrack contrasts his own proposal for ‘conditional hospitality’ towards other religions with Jacques Derrida's unconditional version, Amesbury draws upon ideas from Michel Foucault in developing his historically informed perspective on the concept of religion, and Frazier builds upon ideas from Hans-Georg Gadamer and Gilles Deleuze in developing her far-reaching vision of comparative philosophizing.
ISSN:0034-4125
1469-901X