HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Saussurean Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
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bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
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bullet Northern Europe:
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bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
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bullet Italy:
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bullet Spain:
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bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
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bullet Germany:
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bullet UK and Eire:
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LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

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Music

 

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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory

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Semiotics

 

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EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Human Geography

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SPORTS
 

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CONFERENCES

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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2009:

  • Wisdom, Society of Christian Philosophers, Eastern Regional Meeting, Assumption College, March 27-28

2008:

  • Secularisation and Secularism: International Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Gothenburg University, Sweden, October 20-21
    Reason and Faith at the Beginning of the Third Millennium, Babes-Bolyai University, Roumania, October 9-11

  • Inaugural Conference, Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association, St. Mark’s National Theological Centre, September 27-28

  • The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition and Universalism, Centre of Theology and Philosophy, Rome, September 1-4

  • Sacrifice, 17th European Conference on Philosophy of Religion, Oslo, August 28-31

  • Beyond Paley: Renewing the Vision for Natural Theology, Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford, June 23–25

  • Philosophy and Liturgy: Ritual, Practice, and Embodied Wisdom, Calvin College, May 20-22
  • King's Philosophical Theology Seminar, Centre for the History of Philosophical Theology, King's College, University of London, April 28

  • Options and Issues in Applied Ethics, Society of Christian Philosophers, Eastern Regional Meeting, Niagara University, April 18-19

  • Religion and Subjectivity: Reconsidering the Relational Self, Centre for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, March 13-15

  • The Re-Enchantment of Nature across Disciplines: Critical Intersections of Science, Ethics, and Metaphysics, 2nd International Meeting, International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, National Autonomous University of Mexico, January 17-20

2007:

  • The Concept of God, British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, Oxford University, September 11–13

    Transcendence Incarnate the Corporeality of the Spiritual and the Spirituality of the Corporeal, Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, September 10

  • Theology, Evolution and the Mind, Christchurch University, Canterbury, UK, September 6-8
  • Theory Faith Culture, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, July 4–6
  • Options and Issues in Christian Ethics, Eastern Regional Meeting, Society of Christian Philosophers, Department of Humanities, Columbia International University, April 20-21

  • The End of Secular Thought?, Fordham University, April 13 - 14

  • Models of God, in conjunction with the APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 4-5

  • Developing Character: Moral and Intellectual Virtues, Midwest Regional Meeting, Society of Christian Philosophers, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Dubuque, March 22-24

  • Theology and Ontology, Society of Christian Philosophers, Pacific Regional Meeting, Azusa Pacific University, February 22-24

2006:

  • Faith and Violence: Jihad and Holy War, Annual Northeast Region Conference on Christianity and Literature, St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NY, October 20-21

  • Belief and Metaphysics, Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein, Universidade de Granada, Spain, September 15-18

  • Religion after Metaphysics, 16th Biennial Conference, European Society for the Philosophy of Religion, Tübingen, September 1-4

  • Alternative Expressions of the Numinous, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland, August 18-20

  • Linnaeus and Homo Religiosus, Uppsala University, May 30-June 2

  • Emotions and Religion, University of Manchester, May 5

  • Christianity and Mystery, MidWest Regional Meeting, Society of Christian Philosophers, University of Notre Dame, April 20-22

  • Exploring Religion, Nature and Culture, Inaugural Conference, International Society for Religion, Nature and Culture, University of Florida, April 6-9

  • Love: Investigating its Meaning, History, and Expressions, Annual Conference, Wesleyan Philosophical Society (WPS), Kansas City, March 2

  • Selves, Souls and Survival, Pacific Regional Meeting, Society of Christian Philosophers, University of San Diego, February 16-18

  • Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture, Department of the Study of Religion, University of Aarhus, January 5-7

2005:

  • Spirituality, Justice and Pedagogy, Calvin Seminars in Christian Scholarship, Calvin College, September 22-24

  • Human Sciences and Religion, Société Française pour l'Histoire des Sciences de l'Homme (S.F.H.S.H.), Paris, Septembre 21-23

  • Religious Emotions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, September 19-21

  • The Christian Worldview: Analysis, Assessment, and Development: a Conference in Honor of Keith E. Yandell, New College Madison, Society of Christian Philosophers Midwest Region, Department of Philosophy and Department of
    Liberal Studies and the Arts, University of Wisconsin, September 15-17

  • Testimony in the Religious Epistemology of Scottish Philosophy, Centre for the History of Philosophical Theology, King's College London, September 15

  • Realism and the Philosophy of Religion, Annual Conference, British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, September 13-15

  • Einstein, God and Time, Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford, September 12-15

  • Creation and the Abrahamic Faiths, University of Manchester, September 11-13

  • Transcendence and Phenomenologgy, Centre of Theology and Philosophy (COTP), University of Nottingham, September 1-3

  • Mimetic Theory and the Imitation of the Divine: Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Koblenz, Germany, July 6-10

  • The Meaning of Theism, Department of Philosophy, University of Reading, April 23

  • St. Paul Among the Philosophers: Subjectivity, Universality and the Event, Postmodernism, Culture and Religion I, Syracuse University, April 14-16

  • Christian Citizenship, Pacific Society of Christian Philosophers, George Fox University, Oregon April 14-16

  • Christian Philosophy and Religious Diversity, Annual Meeting, Society of Christian Philosophers - Midwest Region, Lincoln Christian College and Seminary, April 7-9

  • The Problem of Evil, Literature and Philosophy PhD Programme, Purdue University, April 1-3

  • Evil in Religion: Origins, Forms and Coping: Case Studies and Reflections, Free University and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, March 17-19

2004:

  • Science and Religious Faith, Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting, Cumberland College, December 2-4

  • Spiritual Identities, Lancaster University, November 5-6

  • The Hiddenness of God, Theology Forum and Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 21-23 

  • The Imaginal Cosmos: Astrology, Divination and the Sacred, University of Kent, October 2-3

  • Faith, Values and the Scientific Enterprise, Exeter University, September 7-9

  • The Human Person in God's World: Austin Farrer Centenerary Conference, Oriel College, University of Oxford, September 6-9

  • Reformed Epistemology versus Evidentialism: Recent Developments, Pacific Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Biola University, February 26-28

2003:

  • Open Theism, Eastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Asbury College, December 4-6

  • Bioethics and Christian Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Wheaton College, October 30-November 1

  • The Place of Humans in the Universe: World Faith Perspectives, Science and Religion Forum, Department of Theology, & School of Education, University of Birmingham, September 8-10

  • Religion and Ethics, Society of Christian Philosophers and the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, August 6-8

  • Questioning Religion, British Society for Phenomenology, University of Greenwich, July 11-13

  • Visions of Heaven and Hell, Brussels, June 13-15

  • Redeeming Truth: Considering Faith and Reason: the Relationship between Faith and Reason, Heythrop College, University of London, May 31

  • Religion, Mysticism and Ethics, Princeton University, May 17-18

  • Cosmology and Theology, University of Notre Dame, January 31-February 1

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COURSES

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

  • Routledge: Radical Orthodoxy Series

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:
    • Philosophy of Religion:
      • Antony, Louise M., ed.  Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life.  Oxford: OUP, 2007.
      • Craig, William Lane, ed.  Philosophy of Religion: a Reader and Guide.  New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 2002.
      • Davies, Brian, ed.  Philosophy of Religion: a Guide and Anthology.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.
      • Hick, John H., ed.  Classical and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy of Religion.  3rd Ed.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989.
      • Peterson, Michael, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger, eds.  Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.
      • Pojman, Louis P., ed.  Philosophy of Religion: an Anthology.  4th Ed.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2002.
      • Rowe, William, and William Wainwright, eds.  Philosophy of Religion.  3rd Ed.  Oxford: OUP, 1999.
    • Theory of Religion:

      • Baker, Deane-Peter, and Patrick Maxwell, eds.  Explorations in Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.
      • Bernauer, James and Jeremy Carrette, eds.  Foucault and Theology.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
      • Bond, Phillip, ed.  Post-Secular Philosophy.
      • Caputo, John D., ed.  The Religious.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
      • Janicaud, Dominique, et al., eds.  Phenomenology and the Theological Turn: the French Debate.  New York: Fordham UP, 2000.
      • Jost, Walter, and Wendy Olmsted, ed.  Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry: New Perspectives.  New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.
      • Long, Eugene Thomas, ed.  Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2007.
      • Milbank, John, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward, eds.  Radical Orthodoxy: a New Theology.  London: Routledge, 1999.

      • Phenomenology and the Theological Turn:

        • Candler, Peter M., and Conor Cunningham, eds.  Transcendence and Phenomenology.  Norwich: SCM Press, 2009.

        • Janicaud, Dominique, ed.  Le Tournant théologique de la phénoménologie Française.  Combas: L'Éclat, 1991.
          • Phenomenology and the Theological Turn: the French Debate.  New York: Fordham UP, 2000.
  • Selected Individual Works:
    • Philosophy of Religion:

      • Bishop, John.  Believing by Faith: an Essay in the Epistemology and Ethics of Religious Belief.  Oxford: OUP, 2007.

      • Dombrowski, Daniel A.  Rethinking the Ontological Argument: a Neoclassical Theistic Response.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

      • Hare, John E.  God and Morality: a Philosophical History.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

      • Hebblethwaite, Brian.  Philosophical Theology and Christian Doctrine.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

      • Hoffman, Joshua, and Gary Rosenkrantz.  The Divine Attributes.  2002.

      • Menssen, Sandra, and Thomas D. Sullivan.  The Agnostic Inquirer: Revelation from a Philosophical Standpoint.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007.

      • Murphy, Nancey.  Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

      • O'Connor, Timothy.  Theism and Ultimate Explanation: the Necessary Shape of Contingency.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.

      • Oppy, Graham.  Arguing about Gods.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
      • Quinn, Philip L.  Essays in the Philosophy of Religion.  Ed. Christian B. Miller.  Oxford: OUP, 2006.

      • Schellenberg, J. L.  The Wisdom to Doubt: a Justification of Religious Skepticism.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007.

      • Schellenberg, J. L.  Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2005.

    • Theory of Religion:

      • Altizer, Thomas. 

      • Clayton, John.  Religions, Reasons and Gods: Essays in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of ReligionEd. Anne M. Blackburn and Thomas D. Carroll.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

      • Crockett, Clayton.  Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory.  New York: Fordham UP, 2007.

      • Crockett, Clayton.  A Theology of the Sublime.  London: Routledge, 2001.

      • Goodchild, Philip.  Capitalism and Religion: the Price of Piety.  London: Routledge, 2002.

      • Hemming, Laurence Paul.  Postmodernity's Transcending: Devaluing God.  Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2005.
      • Kearney, Richard.  The God Who May Be: a Hermeneutics of Religion.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001.
      • Kitaro, Nishida.  Nothingness and the Religious Worldview

      • Kukla, André.  Ineffability and Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 2005.

      • Manoussakis, John Panteleimon.  God after Metaphysics: a Theological Aesthetic.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2007.
      • Otto, Rudolph.  Das Heilige.
        • The Idea of the Holy.
      • Peperzak, Adriaan Theodor.  Philosophy Between Faith and Theology: Addresses to Catholic Intellectuals.  Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2005.
      • Scharfstein, Ben-Ami.  Ineffability: the Failure of Words in Philosophy and Religion.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.

      • Sokolowski, Robert.  Christian Faith and Human Understanding: Studies on the Eucharist, Trinity, and the Human Person.  Washington: Catholic U of America Press, 2006.
      • Steinbock, Anthony J.  Phenomenology and Mysticism: the Verticality of Religious Experience.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2007.
      • Tillich, Paul.  Systematic Theology 
      • Wilder, Amos Niven.  Theopoetic: Theology and the Religious Imagination.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976.
      • Winquist, Charles.  The Surface of the DeepDavies, .
      • Phenomenology and the Theological Turn:

        • Janicaud, Dominique. 

          • On the Human Condition.  Trans. Eileen Brennan.  Intro. Simon Critchley.  London: Routledge, 2005.

        • Kristensen, W. Brede.  The Meaning of Religion: Lectures in the Phenomenology of ReligionTrans. John B. Carman.  The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.  1971.
        • Van der Leeuw, Gerardus.  Phänomenologie der Religion.  1933.  2nd edition. Tubingen: J. C. Mohr, 1956.

          • Religion in Essence and Manifestation: a Study in Phenomenology.  Trans. J. E. Turner.  2 Vols.  New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

On-Line:

  • Philosophy of Religion:

  • Theory of Religion:

    • Robbins, Jeffrey W.: Weak Theology Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 5.2 (2004): 1-4

    • Phenomenology and the Theological Turn:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:
  • Anthologies:
    • Philosophy of Religion:
      • Harris, Harriet A., and Christopher J. Insole, eds.  Faith and Philosophical Analysis: the Impact of Analytical Philosophy on the Philosophy of Religion
      • Martin, Michael, ed.  Cambridge Companion to Atheism.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.
      • Peterson, Michael, ed.  Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Religion.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
      • Peterson, Michael, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger, eds.  Reason and Religious Belief: an Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.  3rd Ed.  Oxford: OUP, 2002.
      • Wainwright, William J., ed.  Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
    • Theory of Religion:
      • Phenomenology and the Theological Turn:

  • Selected Individual Works:
    • Philosophy of Religion:
      • Davies, Brian.  An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.  3rd Ed.  Oxford: OUP, 2004.
      • Hick, John H.  Philosophy of Religion.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989.
      • Pojman, Louis P.  Philosophy of Religion.  Mountain View: Mayfield, 2000.
      • Rowe, William, and William Wainwright.  Philosophy of Religion: an Introduction.  3rd Ed.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000.
      • Stone, M. W. F.  "The Philosophy of Religion."  Philosophy 2: Further Through the Subject.  Ed. A. C. Grayling.  Oxford: OUP, 1998.  267-350.
      • Taliaferro, Charles.  Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century.  Cambridge: CUP, 2005.
      • Yandell, Keith E.  Philosophy of Religion: a Contemporary Introduction.  London: Routledge, 1999.
      • Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus.  The Philosophy of Religion: an Historical Introduction.  Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
    • Theory of Religion:

      • James, George.  Interpreting Religion: the Phenomenological Approaches of Pierre Daniël Chantepie de la Saussaye, W. Brede Kristensen, and Gerardus van der Leeuw.  Washington: Catholic U of America P, 1995.

      • Wainwright, William J.  "Continental Philosophy of Religion."  Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of ReligionOxford: OUP, 2005.  472-494.

      • Phenomenology and the Theological Turn:

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