Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39792-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Philosophy of Religion - World Religions

This volume argues that Wittgenstein’s philosophy of religion and his thought in general continue to be highly relevant for present and future research on interreligious relations. Spanning several (sub)disciplines – from philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, comparative philosophy, comparative theology, to religious studies – the contributions engage with recent developments in interpretation of Wittgenstein and those in the philosophy and theology of interreligious encounter. The book shows that there is an important and under-explored potential for constructive and fruitful engagement between these academic fields. It explores, and attempts to realize, some of this potential by involving both philosophers and theologians, and critically assesses previous applications of Wittgenstein’s work in interreligious studies.

Contributors are Gorazd Andrejc, Guy Bennett-Hunter, Mikel Burley, Thomas D. Carroll, Paul Cortois, Rhiannon Grant, Randy Ramal, Klaus von Stosch, Varja Štrajn, Nuno Venturinha, Sebastjan Vörös and Daniel H. Weiss.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Andrejc, Gorazd

Weiss, Daniel H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations of the Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Interpretations of Wittgenstein, Religion and Interreligious Relations

Gorazd Andrejc

2 “Being Near Enough to Listen”: Wittgenstein and Interreligious Understanding

Mikel Burley

3 Wittgenstein and Ascriptions of “Religion”

Thomas D. Carroll

4 Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy as Foundation of Comparative Theology

Klaus von Stosch

5 Wittgenstein’s Religious Epistemology and Interfaith Dialogue

Nuno Venturinha

6 Showing the Fly out of the Bottle: Wittgenstein’s Enactive Apophaticism and Interreligious Dialogue

Sebastjan Vörös and Varja Štrajn

7 Radical Pluralism, Concept Formation, and Interreligious Communication

Randy Ramal

8 Wittgensteinian Quasi-Fideism and Interreligious Communication

Guy Bennett-Hunter

9 The God of the Intellect and the God of Lived Religion(s): Reflections on Maimonides, Wittgenstein and Burrell

Daniel H. Weiss

10 Multiple Religious Belonging in a Wittgensteinian Perspective

Rhiannon Grant

11 Names, Persons and Ritual Practices – Wittgenstein and the Way of Tea

Paul Cortois

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gorazd Andrejc is a philosopher of religion. He is Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and Senior Researcher at the Science and Research Centre of Koper, Slovenia. He is the author of Wittgenstein and Interreligious Disagreement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Daniel H. Weiss is Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2012).