Timothy Knepper is Professor of Philosophy at Drake University, where he directs The Comparison Project, a public program dedicated to the exploration of global and comparative religion as well as local, lived religious traditions. His research and teaching span philosophy of religion, mysticism and ineffability, and the intersection of theology, language, and power. He is the author of The Ends of Philosophy of Religion (Palgrave, 2013), Negating Negation: Pseudo-Dionysius and the Christian Apophatic Tradition (Wipf & Stock, 2014), and Philosophies of Religion: A Global and Critical Approach (Bloomsbury, 2022). He has also edited multiple volumes emerging from The Comparison Project’s public dialogues, including Ineffability (Springer, 2017), Death and Dying (Springer, 2019), and Miracles (Springer, 2022). In addition, he has led collaborative works of public scholarship such as A Spectrum of Faith (Drake Community Press, 2017) and Religions of Beijing (Bloomsbury, 2020), both collections of student-authored photo-narratives.Knepper’s current research focuses on global-critical philosophy of religion, the rhetoric of ineffability, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and theodicy as a justification of political and economic systems. He co-founded the Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion and has received major grants from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the National Endowment for the Humanities to support interfaith engagement and global-critical scholarship.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. William James .- Chapter 3. Evelyn Underhill.- Chapter 4. Rudolf Otto.- Chapter 5. R.C. Zaehner.- Chapter 6. W.T. Stace.- Chapter 7. Huston Smith.- Chapter 8. John Hick.- Chapter 9. Robert K.C. Forman.- Chapter 10 Eugene d’Aquili and Andrew Newberg.- Chapter 11.- Michael Sells.-Chapter 12. Conclusion.

Timothy Knepper is Professor of Philosophy at Drake University, where he directs The Comparison Project, a public program dedicated to the exploration of global and comparative religion as well as local, lived religious traditions. His research and teaching span philosophy of religion, mysticism and ineffability, and the intersection of theology, language, and power. He is the author of The Ends of Philosophy of Religion (Palgrave, 2013), Negating Negation: Pseudo-Dionysius and the Christian Apophatic Tradition (Wipf & Stock, 2014), and Philosophies of Religion: A Global and Critical Approach (Bloomsbury, 2022). He has also edited multiple volumes emerging from The Comparison Project’s public dialogues, including Ineffability (Springer, 2017), Death and Dying (Springer, 2019), and Miracles (Springer, 2022). In addition, he has led collaborative works of public scholarship such as A Spectrum of Faith (Drake Community Press, 2017) and Religions of Beijing (Bloomsbury, 2020), both collections of student-authored photo-narratives.Knepper’s current research focuses on global-critical philosophy of religion, the rhetoric of ineffability, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and theodicy as a justification of political and economic systems. He co-founded the Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion and has received major grants from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the National Endowment for the Humanities to support interfaith engagement and global-critical scholarship.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. William James .- Chapter 3. Evelyn Underhill.- Chapter 4. Rudolf Otto.- Chapter 5. R.C. Zaehner.- Chapter 6. W.T. Stace.- Chapter 7. Huston Smith.- Chapter 8. John Hick.- Chapter 9. Robert K.C. Forman.- Chapter 10 Eugene d’Aquili and Andrew Newberg.- Chapter 11.- Michael Sells.-Chapter 12. Conclusion.

Timothy Knepper is Professor of Philosophy at Drake University, where he directs The Comparison Project, a public program dedicated to the exploration of global and comparative religion as well as local, lived religious traditions. His research and teaching span philosophy of religion, mysticism and ineffability, and the intersection of theology, language, and power. He is the author of The Ends of Philosophy of Religion (Palgrave, 2013), Negating Negation: Pseudo-Dionysius and the Christian Apophatic Tradition (Wipf & Stock, 2014), and Philosophies of Religion: A Global and Critical Approach (Bloomsbury, 2022). He has also edited multiple volumes emerging from The Comparison Project’s public dialogues, including Ineffability (Springer, 2017), Death and Dying (Springer, 2019), and Miracles (Springer, 2022). In addition, he has led collaborative works of public scholarship such as A Spectrum of Faith (Drake Community Press, 2017) and Religions of Beijing (Bloomsbury, 2020), both collections of student-authored photo-narratives.Knepper’s current research focuses on global-critical philosophy of religion, the rhetoric of ineffability, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and theodicy as a justification of political and economic systems. He co-founded the Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion and has received major grants from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the National Endowment for the Humanities to support interfaith engagement and global-critical scholarship.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. William James .- Chapter 3. Evelyn Underhill.- Chapter 4. Rudolf Otto.- Chapter 5. R.C. Zaehner.- Chapter 6. W.T. Stace.- Chapter 7. Huston Smith.- Chapter 8. John Hick.- Chapter 9. Robert K.C. Forman.- Chapter 10 Eugene d’Aquili and Andrew Newberg.- Chapter 11.- Michael Sells.-Chapter 12. Conclusion.