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List of contents
Contents: Introduction, Philip Goodchild; Religion of philosophy: The ontological argument for existence, Brayton Polka; Divine and graven images: the contemporaneity of theory and the Bible, Avron Kulak; Traversing the infinite through Augustine and Derrida, Mark Cauchi; Sexual difference: Beyond belief: sexual difference and religion after ontotheology, Ellen T. Armour; Towards a feminist philosophy of ritual and bodily practice, Amy M. Hollywood; Locating difference in traditions: What if religio remained untranslatable?, Arvind-Pal S. Mandair; Virtual corpus: solicitous mutilation and the body of tradition, Navdeep Singh Mandair; Religious 'worlds' and their alien invaders, Paulo Gonçalves; Thinking a critical theory of postcolonialism Islam, Youssef Yacoubi; Locating experience in culture: Fantasy, imagination and the possibility of experience, Paul Fletcher; Religious materialism: Bataille, Deleuze/Guattari and the sacredness of late capital, Jim Urpeth; Political difference: Politics, pluralism and the philosophy of religion: an essay on exteriority, Philip Goodchild
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Philip Goodchild
Summary
This title was first published in 2003. Can difference be subordinated to identity, simplicity or diversity? Or does it make a difference to the entire way in which we think? This book challenges the dominant agenda in the discipline of philosophy of religion by exploring issues of difference that have hitherto been obscured.
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'It is an excellent volume, continuing the recent development of an alternative approach to philosophy of religion: a breath of fresh air in a discipline which was becoming moribund.' Grace M. Jantzen, Research Professor of Religion, Culture and Gender, University of Manchester, UK 'Having read the whole book I am left with a wide variety of new insights into the philosophy of religion... its editor Philip Goodchild [...] has succeeded in bringing together examples of difference as an illustration of the clear need to talk and think about difference in philosophy of religion... a serious acknowledgment of the issues raised in this book will almost certainly call for a shift of power within the community itself.' Arsdisputandi.org '... the book is to be welcomed.' Theology 'This volume would be a useful resource for graduate students and faculty who have a solid background in contemporary debates in philosophy of religion and religious studies.' Religious Studies Review '... an important, provocative and often highly stimulating collection that opens genuinely new areas for enquiry for philosophy and theology in the continental tradition.' Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
