HISTORY

 

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

 

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

 

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

   Renaissance Literature

 

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

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Romanticism (1785-1830):
     
Romantic Literature
   Mid-Century/Fin de Siècle (1830-1900)
:
     
'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Analytic Philosophy

   Continental Theory:
     
Idealism

      Marxism

      Phenom., Existent., Hermeneutics

      Psychoanalysis

      (Post-)Structuralisms:

         Deconstruction

         Deleuzean Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)

         Foucauldian Discourse Theory

         Semiology / Structuralism

         Structuralist Marxism

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis

   Modernism, Myth & New Criticism

   Pragmatism

 

   Feminist Theory

   Post-colonial Theory

 

   Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

   Central Asia

   East Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

   Central Europe

   Eastern Europe:

      Russia:

        Literature

   Northern Europe:

      Literature

   Southern Europe:

      Greece:

         Literature

      Italy:

         Literature

      Spain:

         Literature

   Western Europe:

      France:

         Literature

      Germany:

         Literature

      UK and Eire:

         Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

   Arabic/Islamic Thought:

      Literature

   Israeli/Jewish Thought:

      Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

   African American Thought:

      Literature

   Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

   Architecture
   Arts, Visual and Plastic

   Film

   Literature:

      Author

      Literary Form & Genre:

         Drama

         Poetry

         Prose

      Literary History, Intertextuality, Canon.

      Metaliterature

      Reader

      Representation

   Music
   Other Media (e.g. Photography)

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

   Discourse Studies
   Philosophy of Language & Logic

   Linguistics

   Rhetoric & Argumentation Theory

   Semiotics

 

   Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

   Medical Humanities
  
Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

   Psychology

 

   Gender

   Race

   Sexuality

 

   Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

RELIGION
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION / THEOLOGY


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Sub-Topics:

Feminist:

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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2009:

  • The Lives of Others: Human Transformation and Film, Third Annual Seminar on Faith, Film and Philosophy, Gonzaga University and Whitworth University, November 6-7
  • The Bible and Philosophy: Rethinking the Fundamentals, Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion (PPR), Shalem Center in Jerusalem, October 25-28
  • Western Conference, Society of Christian Philosophers, Fort Lewis College, October 22-24
  • The Social Dimension of Religion in Civil Society: a Comparative European Perspective, Ersta Sköndal University College, September 17-19
  • God and Morality, British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, University of Oxford, September 16–18
  • My Ways Are Not Your Ways: the Character of the God of the Hebrew Bible, Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame, September 10-12

  • Second International Conference, Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association (APRA), University of Sydney, July 16-17
  • Religion and Politics of the Body, Second Biannual Conference, Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion, University of Iceland, June 26-28
  • Towards a Philosophy of Life: Reflections on the Concept of Life in Continental Philosophy of Religion, Liverpool Hope University, June 26-28
  • The Concept of God and the Cognitive Science of Religion, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, June 14–16
  • Formal Perspectives on the Epistemology of Religion, Formal Epistemology Project, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and the Center for Philosophy and Religion, University of Glasgow, June 10-12
  • A Secular Age: Tracing the Contours of Religion and Belief, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin, Ireland, June 8-11
  • Philosophical Theology Workshop, Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame, May 28-30
  • Metaphysics of Theism, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, May 28
  • Phenomenology and the Theological Turn, 27th Annual Symposium, Simon Silverman Phenomenology Centre, Duquesne University, April 28-29
  • Divine Communication, Midwest Regional Meeting, Society of Christian Philosophers, Oklahoma Baptist University, April 23–25
  • Exploring the Post-Secular, MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society, Yale University, April 3-4
  • Wisdom, Society of Christian Philosophers, Eastern Regional Meeting, Assumption College, March 27-28

2008:

  • Religion and Democracy: Challenges and Prospects, Lutheran Theological University, Budapest, December 15-16

  • 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:

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

2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

Regular Events:

COURSES

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book 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.
      • Moser, Paul K., ed.  Jesus and Philosophy: New Essays.  Cambridge: CUP, 2008.
      • 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.
      • 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:

      • Almeida, Michael J.  The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings.  London: Routledge, 2008.

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

      • Clanton, J. Caleb.  Religion and Democratic Citizenship: Inquiry and Conviction in the American Public Square.  Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2008.

      • 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.

      • Langtry, Bruce.  God, the Best, and Evil.  Oxford: OUP, 2008.

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

      • Murray, Michael J.  Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering.  Oxford: OUP, 2008.

      • 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.

      • Swinburne, Richard.  Was Jesus God?.  Oxford: OUP, 2008.

    • Theory of Religion:

      • Altizer, Thomas. 

      • Chopp, Rebecca. 

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

      • Compier, Don H.  What is Rhetorical Theology?  Textual Practice and Public Discourse.  London: Continuum, 1999.

      • 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.

      • Crowley, Sharon.  Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism.  Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2005.

      • Cunningham, David.  Faithful Persuasion: in Aid of a Rhetoric of Christian Theology.  Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1993.

      • Davies, Oliver.  The Creativity of God.  2004.

      • Davies, Oliver.  A Theology of Compassion.  2001.

      • English, Adam C.  The Possibility of Christian Philosophy: Maurice Blondel at the Intersection of Theology and Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 2007.

      • Geertz, Clifford.  "Religion as a Cultural System." Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion.  Ed. Michael P. Banton.  London: Tavistock, 1966: 1-46.

        • The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic, 1973.  87-125.

      • 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 
      • Tracy, David.  Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1994.
      • Wilder, Amos Niven.  Theopoetic: Theology and the Religious Imagination.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976.
      • Winquist, Charles.  The Surface of the DeepDavies, .
      • Witherington, Ben.  New Testament Rhetoric: an Introduction Guide to the Art of Persuasion in and of the New Testament Wipf & Stock, 2008.

      • 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:

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.

      • McCutcheon, Russel T.  The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric.  London: Routledge, 2003.

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

      • Yaghjian, Lucretia.  Writing Theology Well: a Rhetoric for Theological And Biblical Writers.  London: Continuum, 2006.

      • Phenomenology and the Theological Turn:

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