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On Kevin Schilbrack’s Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto

Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, ISBN: 978-1444330533, pb, 246pp.

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  1. Schilbrack offers a second description of the task which relies more explicitly on the definition of religion he develops in chapter five. See Jim McLachlan’s comments on the definition in this symposium.

  2. Cf. the self-criticism of the notably non-traditional work of the Comparative Religious Ideas Project in Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville, ‘On the Nature of Religion: Lessons We Have Learned,’ 203–217, in Robert Cummings Neville (ed.) Religious Truth, foreword by Jonathan Z. Smith (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001).

  3. See J. Aaron Simmons’ comments in this symposium.

  4. Edward Slingerland, Trying Not To Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity (New York: Crown Publishers, 2014), 28–29.

  5. For a sophisticated discussion of these issues in terms of a dialectic of data and categories, see Wesley J. Wildman, Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry: Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), 125–165.

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Irvine, A.B. On Kevin Schilbrack’s Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto . SOPHIA 53, 367–372 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-014-0432-2

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