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The Centre of Philosophy and Religion is dedicated to a rigorous examination of religious attitudes, values, and beliefs expressed worldwide. Religion is one of the great expressions of humankind throughout history and all over the world that offers philosophy many challenges. The forms of religious expression include the totality of human experiences of the sacred. The scope of philosophy and religion is holistic and comprehensive. It is holistic since it includes all forms of religious expressions, and comprehensive since it views religious expression within a wide range of values.

Some broad themes that offer special interest to PAR include the following: the philosophical analysis of theological doctrines or truths of revelation; analytic and post-analytic analyses of religious experience; the European tradition and religion; the encounter of philosophy and religion in history (Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary); the view of religion from the Continental philosophical tradition; the nature and function of religious experience; the concept 'God' as philosophical problem; religious epistemology; atheism and agnosticism; religion and community; metaphysics and religion; etc...

Some narrow themes that offer special interest to PAR include the following: instances of religion and community, namely, (i) religion and environmental ethics, (ii) religious transformation and community, (iii) the social dimension of religion, (iv) the relation of religious symbolism and ceremony to the ongoing transformation of personal experience, (v) philosophical concepts of the person within religion, and (vi) interfaith dialogue. And instances of cognition and religious experience; the problem of evil; critical theory and religion (Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas); the Reformed tradition (as an instance of religious epistemology or natural theology); persons and immortality; the nature and function of religious experience; myth; religion and science; French post-structuralist views of religion; Eastern religion and its relationship to the western religious tradition; etc...

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