Nathan R. B. Loewen is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, USA.Agnieszka Rostalska is FWO Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium.

Philosophy of religion needs to be diversified, but it is not clear exactly how it should be diversified. Loewen and Rostalska address this important question with leading contributors from a variety of religious and intellectual traditions. This is a must read for any philosopher of religion in the twenty-first century.

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Nathan Loewen and Agnieszka RostalskaPart I. Critique and Methods1. Deprovincializing Philosophy of Religion: from “Faith and Reason” to the Postcolonial Revaluation of Religious Epistemologies, Jacob Sherman2. Postcolonialism and the Question of Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion, Andrew Irvine and Purushottama Bilimoria3. Why Philosophers of Religion Don’t Need “Religion”— At Least Not for Now, Tim Knepper4. Re-envisioning Philosophy of Religion from a Feminist Perspective, Morny Joy5. Is Philosophy of Religion Racist?, Sonia Sikka6. Philosophy of Religion beyond Belief: Thinking with Anthropology’s New Animists, Lisa Landoe-Hedrick7. Theory and Method in the Philosophy of Religion in China’s Song-Dynasty, Leah Kalmanson8. The Theory and Practice of the Multi-Entry Approach, Gereon Kopf9. Comparison of Religious Ideas in Philosophy of Religion, Robert Neville10. The Relevance of Scriptures, Steve SmithPart II. Case Studies11. Ethnographically Informed Philosophy of Religion in a Study of Assamese Goddess Worship, Mikel Burley12. Praxis, Louis Komjathy13. Nishida Kitaro's ‘I and Thou’ through the Work of Jessica Benjamin: Toward the Issue of Equality, Mayuko Uehara14. The Nguni traditional ‘religious’ thoughts: The Isintu philosophy of the Zulu/Ndebele, Herbert Moyo15. Approaching a Lakota Philosophy of Religion, Fritz Detwiler16. Yasukuni, Okinawa and Fukushima: Philosophy of Sacrifice in the Nuclear Age, Ching-Yuen Cheung17. Technology and the Spiritual: From Prayer Bots to the Singularity, Yvonne Förster18. Can you see the seer? Approaching Consciousness from an Advaita Vedanta Perspective , Varun Khanna19. The Danger in Diversifying Philosophy of Religion, Kevin SchilbrackIndex

Nathan R. B. Loewen is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, USA.Agnieszka Rostalska is FWO Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium.

Philosophy of religion needs to be diversified, but it is not clear exactly how it should be diversified. Loewen and Rostalska address this important question with leading contributors from a variety of religious and intellectual traditions. This is a must read for any philosopher of religion in the twenty-first century.

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Nathan Loewen and Agnieszka RostalskaPart I. Critique and Methods1. Deprovincializing Philosophy of Religion: from “Faith and Reason” to the Postcolonial Revaluation of Religious Epistemologies, Jacob Sherman2. Postcolonialism and the Question of Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion, Andrew Irvine and Purushottama Bilimoria3. Why Philosophers of Religion Don’t Need “Religion”— At Least Not for Now, Tim Knepper4. Re-envisioning Philosophy of Religion from a Feminist Perspective, Morny Joy5. Is Philosophy of Religion Racist?, Sonia Sikka6. Philosophy of Religion beyond Belief: Thinking with Anthropology’s New Animists, Lisa Landoe-Hedrick7. Theory and Method in the Philosophy of Religion in China’s Song-Dynasty, Leah Kalmanson8. The Theory and Practice of the Multi-Entry Approach, Gereon Kopf9. Comparison of Religious Ideas in Philosophy of Religion, Robert Neville10. The Relevance of Scriptures, Steve SmithPart II. Case Studies11. Ethnographically Informed Philosophy of Religion in a Study of Assamese Goddess Worship, Mikel Burley12. Praxis, Louis Komjathy13. Nishida Kitaro's ‘I and Thou’ through the Work of Jessica Benjamin: Toward the Issue of Equality, Mayuko Uehara14. The Nguni traditional ‘religious’ thoughts: The Isintu philosophy of the Zulu/Ndebele, Herbert Moyo15. Approaching a Lakota Philosophy of Religion, Fritz Detwiler16. Yasukuni, Okinawa and Fukushima: Philosophy of Sacrifice in the Nuclear Age, Ching-Yuen Cheung17. Technology and the Spiritual: From Prayer Bots to the Singularity, Yvonne Förster18. Can you see the seer? Approaching Consciousness from an Advaita Vedanta Perspective , Varun Khanna19. The Danger in Diversifying Philosophy of Religion, Kevin SchilbrackIndex

Nathan R. B. Loewen is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, USA.Agnieszka Rostalska is FWO Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium.

Philosophy of religion needs to be diversified, but it is not clear exactly how it should be diversified. Loewen and Rostalska address this important question with leading contributors from a variety of religious and intellectual traditions. This is a must read for any philosopher of religion in the twenty-first century.

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Nathan Loewen and Agnieszka RostalskaPart I. Critique and Methods1. Deprovincializing Philosophy of Religion: from “Faith and Reason” to the Postcolonial Revaluation of Religious Epistemologies, Jacob Sherman2. Postcolonialism and the Question of Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion, Andrew Irvine and Purushottama Bilimoria3. Why Philosophers of Religion Don’t Need “Religion”— At Least Not for Now, Tim Knepper4. Re-envisioning Philosophy of Religion from a Feminist Perspective, Morny Joy5. Is Philosophy of Religion Racist?, Sonia Sikka6. Philosophy of Religion beyond Belief: Thinking with Anthropology’s New Animists, Lisa Landoe-Hedrick7. Theory and Method in the Philosophy of Religion in China’s Song-Dynasty, Leah Kalmanson8. The Theory and Practice of the Multi-Entry Approach, Gereon Kopf9. Comparison of Religious Ideas in Philosophy of Religion, Robert Neville10. The Relevance of Scriptures, Steve SmithPart II. Case Studies11. Ethnographically Informed Philosophy of Religion in a Study of Assamese Goddess Worship, Mikel Burley12. Praxis, Louis Komjathy13. Nishida Kitaro's ‘I and Thou’ through the Work of Jessica Benjamin: Toward the Issue of Equality, Mayuko Uehara14. The Nguni traditional ‘religious’ thoughts: The Isintu philosophy of the Zulu/Ndebele, Herbert Moyo15. Approaching a Lakota Philosophy of Religion, Fritz Detwiler16. Yasukuni, Okinawa and Fukushima: Philosophy of Sacrifice in the Nuclear Age, Ching-Yuen Cheung17. Technology and the Spiritual: From Prayer Bots to the Singularity, Yvonne Förster18. Can you see the seer? Approaching Consciousness from an Advaita Vedanta Perspective , Varun Khanna19. The Danger in Diversifying Philosophy of Religion, Kevin SchilbrackIndex