عنوان

"The Happy Side of Babel"

شماره

LA121546

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

"The Happy Side of Babel"

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Mikel Burley

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

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.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

101-132

عنوان

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

شماره جلد

29/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0682

اصطلاح موضوعی

contemplative philosophy

اصطلاح موضوعی

D.Z. Phillips

اصطلاح موضوعی

Ludwig Wittgenstein

اصطلاح موضوعی

narrative fiction

اصطلاح موضوعی

philosophy of religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

radical pluralism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Wole Soyinka

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Mikel Burley

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700682-12341384

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y