عنوان

"The Happy Side of Babel"

Number

LA121546

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

"The Happy Side of Babel"

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[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Mikel Burley

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

Philosophers and other scholars of religion are increasingly recognizing that if philosophy of religion is to remain relevant to the study of religion, its scope must be expanded well beyond the confines of a highly intellectualized and abstract "theism." Means of engendering this expansion include methodological diversification-drawing upon thickly described accounts of religious life such as those afforded by ethnographies and certain narrative artworks. Focusing on the latter, this article engages with the question of whether works of narrative fiction-literary or cinematic-can do philosophy of religion in ways that illuminate what D.Z. Phillips characterizes as the "radical plurality" of contemporary religion. Closely examining the examples of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and especially Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, my discussion is contextualized within broader debates over whether philosophy's purpose is to advocate certain religious and moral perspectives or to elucidate those perspectives in more disinterested terms. Philosophers and other scholars of religion are increasingly recognizing that if philosophy of religion is to remain relevant to the study of religion, its scope must be expanded well beyond the confines of a highly intellectualized and abstract "theism." Means of engendering this expansion include methodological diversification-drawing upon thickly described accounts of religious life such as those afforded by ethnographies and certain narrative artworks. Focusing on the latter, this article engages with the question of whether works of narrative fiction-literary or cinematic-can do philosophy of religion in ways that illuminate what D.Z. Phillips characterizes as the "radical plurality" of contemporary religion. Closely examining the examples of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and especially Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, my discussion is contextualized within broader debates over whether philosophy's purpose is to advocate certain religious and moral perspectives or to elucidate those perspectives in more disinterested terms.

Date of Publication

2017

Physical description

101-132

Title

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

Volume Number

29/2

International Standard Serial Number

1570-0682

Subject Term

contemplative philosophy

Subject Term

D.Z. Phillips

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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narrative fiction

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philosophy of religion

Subject Term

radical pluralism

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Wole Soyinka

Mikel Burley

Call Number

10.1163/15700682-12341384

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[Article]

275578

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