Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies: Enecstatic Explorations

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

In this important work, Jim Kanaris provides a unique approach to the study of religion, aiming to alleviate the methodological and ideological barriers that divide philosophers, theologians, and social scientists. This is a "philosophy of religion" for a wider audience than that designation usually circumscribes, and, for that reason, Kanaris opts for the broader "philosophy of religious studies." He hybridizes insights principally from the works of Bernard Lonergan and Martin Heidegger but also those of Jacques Derrida, Charles Winquist, and Tyler Roberts, among others. Kanaris combines this with a distinctive hermeneutical approach that gives rise to what he calls "enecstatic" philosophy, one that manages the irreducible complexity of one's individuality, a singularity, in the negotiation of one's objects of concern. Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies is unlike any other book in religious studies. It provides a unique way to surface personal involvement in the study of religion without compromising scholarly objectivity and philosophical integrity.

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Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies: Enecstatic Explorations

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

In this important work, Jim Kanaris provides a unique approach to the study of religion, aiming to alleviate the methodological and ideological barriers that divide philosophers, theologians, and social scientists. This is a "philosophy of religion" for a wider audience than that designation usually circumscribes, and, for that reason, Kanaris opts for the broader "philosophy of religious studies." He hybridizes insights principally from the works of Bernard Lonergan and Martin Heidegger but also those of Jacques Derrida, Charles Winquist, and Tyler Roberts, among others. Kanaris combines this with a distinctive hermeneutical approach that gives rise to what he calls "enecstatic" philosophy, one that manages the irreducible complexity of one's individuality, a singularity, in the negotiation of one's objects of concern. Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies is unlike any other book in religious studies. It provides a unique way to surface personal involvement in the study of religion without compromising scholarly objectivity and philosophical integrity.

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Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies: Enecstatic Explorations

Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies: Enecstatic Explorations

by Jim Kanaris
Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies: Enecstatic Explorations

Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies: Enecstatic Explorations

by Jim Kanaris

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Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

In this important work, Jim Kanaris provides a unique approach to the study of religion, aiming to alleviate the methodological and ideological barriers that divide philosophers, theologians, and social scientists. This is a "philosophy of religion" for a wider audience than that designation usually circumscribes, and, for that reason, Kanaris opts for the broader "philosophy of religious studies." He hybridizes insights principally from the works of Bernard Lonergan and Martin Heidegger but also those of Jacques Derrida, Charles Winquist, and Tyler Roberts, among others. Kanaris combines this with a distinctive hermeneutical approach that gives rise to what he calls "enecstatic" philosophy, one that manages the irreducible complexity of one's individuality, a singularity, in the negotiation of one's objects of concern. Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies is unlike any other book in religious studies. It provides a unique way to surface personal involvement in the study of religion without compromising scholarly objectivity and philosophical integrity.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781438494562
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 09/01/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 228
File size: 709 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Jim Kanaris is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at McGill University. His previous books include Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion: A Possible Future and Bernard Lonergan's Philosophy of Religion: From Philosophy of God to Philosophy of Religious Studies, both also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. Delimiting Enecstasis

1. Enecstasis: A Disposition for Our Times?

2. The Enecstatic Jig: Personalizing Philosophy of Religion

Part II. Contouring Enecstatic Philosophy of Religious Studies

3. Philosophy of Religious Studies: The Changing Face of Philosophy of Religion

4. Philosophy of Religion Religious Studies Style

5. Derrida's Philosophy of Religion for Religious Studies

Part III. The Heritage and Modus Operandi of Enecstasis

6. Theorizing Religion Enecstatically: The Transcendental Gesture in a New Key

7. Enecstatic Philosophy of Religious Studies: A Sidelong Bow to Self-Appropriation

8. The Normative Impetus of Enecstatic Philosophy of Religious Studies: Dialectic and Foundations

Conclusion
Postscript
Notes
References
Index

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