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Assessing Wesley Wildman’s Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry

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Wesley Wildman is one of the foremost philosophers of religion calling for the evolution of the discipline from its present narrow focus on theistic beliefs to become a discipline concerned with religions in all their diversity. Towards this end, he proposes that philosophers of religion understand what they do as multidisciplinary comparative inquiry. This article assesses his proposal.

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Schilbrack, K. Assessing Wesley Wildman’s Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry. SOPHIA 51, 303–309 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-012-0315-3

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